Ramelton Library

Church/chapel in Donegal, Ireland, dating from 1670–1820

Freestanding six-bay double-height Presbyterian church, built c. 1680 or c. 1720, with single-bay gables having windows to upper levels, and having five-bay two-storey double-height block added to the south (parallel to original block), c. 1815. In use as a Presbyterian meetinghouse until construction of new meetinghouse (see 40800504) at Ramelton in 1906. In use from 1907 as a store, wheelwright’s workshop, and car mechanics workshop. Restored, c. 1990, and subsequently in use as Donegal Ancestry Research Centre until c. 2000. Now in use as library and meeting rooms. Pitched natural slate roofs, with red clay roll ridge tiles, projecting roughcast rendered eaves courses, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, gently battered to north elevation of older block to the north. Segmental-headed window openings to the north elevation of earlier block to the north( central two windows higher than the end bays) having nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting tracery to heads, exposed sash boxes, smooth rendered reveals, and with smooth rendered stone sills. Single round-headed window openings to the east and west gable elevations of original block to the north at attic level having fifteen-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting tracery to heads, exposed sash boxes, smooth rendered reveals, and with smooth rendered

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1670–1820

Where:
Donegal, Ireland

Coordinates:
55.04°N, 7.64°W

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