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Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house, window, capital and vault rib
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of chapter house showing window with filleted arch mouldings and foliate capital carried on a shaft. Rib vaulting also visible. Original tracery has been substituted with glazing.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny, interior - church, east wall
Photograph by Roger Stalley. A view of the interior surface of the east wall of the original church at Fertagh. The masonry style may be cyclopean but this is obscured by the wall having been rendered with cement to create a playing surface for handball.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny, exterior - general view of church
Photograph by Roger Stalley. General view of the church at Fertagh. The nave is to the right of the image, it was converted into a handball alley. The MacGillapadraig mortuary chapel is to the left, north of the nave.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny, exterior - north nave wall, window
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Twin ogee headed light under a square label in the north nave wall of Fertagh church.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny, interior - font, basin
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The font originally from Fertagh but now housed in Johnstown Roman Catholic Chapel.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny - crucifixion plaque, general view and details
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The crucifixion plaque once housed at Fertagh and now relocated to a niche in front of Johnstown Roman Catholic Chapel.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Double foliate capital of the lavabo with acanthus foliage showing drill holes, carried on twin round shafts. The roll - and - fillet abacus (damaged) continues as a stringcourse.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of the Chapter House showing traceried window, rib - vaulted ceiling and a selection of moulded stone fragments including scalloped capitals, voussoirs and corbels.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Capital of the lavabo showing acanthus foliate carving with decorative drill holes below. Capital is surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus; round shafts below are missing.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by an arris fillet; an acanthus foliate carved bell capital punctuates a roll - and - fillet stringcourse.
Fertagh, County Kilkenny, interior - polygonal font, multiple images of faces
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The font from Fertagh, now housed in Johnstown Catholic Chapel.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Capital (damaged) of the lavabo. Similar to rscm0837 which shows acanthus foliate carving in the bell surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus all resting upon a jamb with a round engaged shaft.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, lower courses
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The lower courses of two openings of the lavabo.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by an arris fillet; an acanthus foliate carved bell capital (damaged) interrupts a roll - and - fillet stringcourse.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Foliate capital of the lavabo with acanthus foliate carvings carried on twin round shafts. The roll - and - fillet abacus continues as a stringcourse above which springs a vault - rib.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Foliate capital of the lavabo with acanthus foliate carvings carried on twin round shafts. The roll - and - fillet abacus continues as a stringcourse above which springs a vault - rib.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of the chapter house showing rib - vaulted ceiling, portion of window rere - arch mouldings and bell capital with nailhead ornament carried on a roll - and - fillet shaft.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of the Chapter House showing doorway with receding orders on chamfered bases, rib - vaulted ceiling and a selection of moulded stone fragments including scalloped capitals, voussoirs and corbels.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - nave, south - west crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the south - west crossing pier. Diamond - shaped in plan, the pier has large filleted shafts and bases with elongated bells on the diagonal face. Moulding style is similar to fourteenth - century work in the south transept suggesting they were constructed concurrently. Substantial form of the pier suggests it…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north nave arcade, pier fragments
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north arcade showing fragments of various piers. One with octagonal chamfered base and vertical double - ogee mouldings resting on a high chamfered plinth of late Gothic type. Another fragment is a filleted shaft with a base set on a high round plinth. The final fragment is a vertical filleted angle - shaft…