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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.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of chapels in the eastern wall of the south transept seen from from the east. Square centre chapel is flanked by two with apsidal terminations. South elevation of south - east crossing pier and southern trasept pier also visible showing orders of filleted rolls resting on octagonal chamfered bases.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south - east crossing pier, diamond - shaped in plan, showing large filleted shafts resting on octagonal chamfered bases. Evidence of four separate, successive building phases can be identified by the base moulding, shafts, responds and plinths.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of west aisle of north transept showing rectangular pier in southern - most chapel. South and west elevations have filleted shafts on water - holding bases and chamfered plinth. They may have acted as responds for vault ribs above.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View into western aisle of north transept. Foreground shows north - west crossing pier with plain shafts on a chamfered plinth. Transept piers are rectangular in shape and have filleted shafts with water - holding bases.

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…

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…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the west face of the south - west crossing pier. Measuring over 2.44m on its axis, the substantial size suggests it was required to support a central tower.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of lavabo showing 1.5 bays of the octagonally planned building. Each bay occupies a side of the octagon. The bays are divided vertically by angle shafts of twin rolls separated by an angle fillet which support acanthus capitals, these in turn once supported a rib - vault. The bays are divided horizontally…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Capital of the lavabo with acanthus foliate carving in the bell surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus all resting upon a jamb with a round shaft. Richly moulded soffit is visible at the top of the image.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of the lavabo showing bell capital with acanthus foliate carving surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus resting on a jamb with a round shaft (damaged). Mouldings of soffit arch are chamfered, but this may be a modern repair.

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