Join us at the launch of the roof appeal on Sunday 31st August!

Live Music and Dancing
Admission Free ... All Welcome
Kennedy's Bar Puckane
Sunday 31st August 2008 6pm
Barbeque €5 pp
Set Dancing incl. Ormond CCE
Nenagh Mint Jazz Band
Ned Kelly and friends, Tom McCarthy, Seamus Coleman
Brendan Quinn, Mick Clarke, Claire and Eddie Loughnane
and others
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Roof Appeal launch

Plans are being made to launch the Killodiernan Roof Appeal on Sunday 31st August.

More details later!
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Heritage Council to consider grant aid

The Heritage Council has placed Killodiernan Church roof on its list for possible funding in 2009. Such funding, if we get it, would be of very great assistance, but is unlikely to cover more than a small proportion of the costs.
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We need your help!

Our much-loved church needs a new roof urgently.

Our professional advisers tell us that without major work there is a risk that the near 200 year-old roof may collapse. Nail-sickness is causing slates to fall, and roof timbers are decayed.

As a small Church of Ireland parish we are faced with a bill for €100,000 or more, which is beyond our means.

As we struggle with this enormous problem, with faith in the goodwill and generosity of the wider community, we address this appeal for financial help to:
· our friends and neighbours;
· the local business community;
· the wider Church of Ireland community.

How you can help

· By supporting the programme of fundraising events we are planning over the next year (announcements will be made on this web site)

· With a donation: cheques may be made out to Killodiernan Roof Appeal, and sent to the parish treasurer:
George Langley,
Otway House, Templederry,
Nenagh, Co Tipperary.
The Church is a registered charity (No. 7327), so donations over €250 can be set against tax - receipts will be given.

History and Features

History

The Church dates from 1811, as recorded on the fine date stone above the main entrance. It replaced the ruinous medieval parish church a mile away. Originally a simple barn-church with tower and small gallery, but without vestry or chancel, it was built to hold 150 people at a cost of £789 9s 2½d (€1002.41) with a grant from the Board of First Fruits.

Drawings done by James Pain c.1830 show that at that time it had box pews and a central pulpit between the two windows on the north side of the nave.

The short chancel and vestry were added in 1879, the work being done by building contractor Patrick Sheridan of Birr. No doubt the box pews and central pulpit were removed at that time, making way for the present pews and pulpit and prayer-desk at the east-end of the church.

Features

The rather plain, intimate interior gives the Church an extraordinary atmosphere, calm and meditative. The morning sun glows through the three lancet windows in the chancel, glazed with green and yellow diamond glass. The nave is well lit by three large gothic windows of plain glass, giving worshippers a glimpse of the world outside, if their minds should wander from the liturgy - bare twigs and sky in winter, sun-dappled green in summer, and falling leaves in autumn. Notice the unusual, delicate, ogee tracery of the windows, well displaying the skills of the craftsmen who made them.

Marble monuments decorate the plain walls, recording the names of local families, most long departed from the parish, such as Holmes (once owners of Nenagh), Headech, Minnitt and Waller. W B Yeats’ words inscribed on the Waller memorial evoke nearby Lough Derg:
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.

The Church nestles comfortably in the countryside, with its neatly kept graveyard, backed by trees, behind a stone-built wall to the road, with its ancient, wrought-iron gate. Bulbs spread under the trees in spring, and wildflowers including orchids bloom in the turf in summer. Notice the wide eaves, the home of a bat nursery, and the pinnacled parapet of the tower, in which jackdaws nest.


Killodiernan Church interior