placenamesStonehall
Tigh Cloiche
A roofless church and its graveyard preserve a nineteenth-century landmark within Stonehall’s Westmeath electoral division.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tigh Cloiche · Irish · main form
- Stonehall · English · main form
Place & story
A church above the graves
The Church of Saint John the Baptist stands in Stonehall townland, within the electoral division of the same name. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates it to about 1810. Its long hall and square western tower use pointed openings and a battlemented parapet to give a small rural church a Gothic character. [2] [3]
Surviving stonework
The inventory recorded the church as roofless and overgrown in 2004. Its surrounding graveyard, carved memorials, stone boundary wall and wrought-iron entrance gates remained part of the setting. The surviving tower marks a building whose form can still be understood despite the loss of its roof. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stonehall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Church of Saint John the Baptist (Stonehall), NIAH15401230 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Stonehall townland within Stonehall electoral division · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2013-11-01. How this page was prepared.