Ward Lower Church

Dedicated to St Brigid the church fell into ruin between 1630 and 1650 (Fingal Historic Graves Project 2008). This site was described as the walls of an old church in the Civil survey (1654-6) (Simington 1945, 235). The foundations of the medieval parish church can be traced within a raised, walled graveyard. In the 1992 report they appeared as a low rectangular mound, aligned WNW-ESE (dims. L 14m, Wth 8-9m, H.1m). The church has since undergone 'improvement'. It is defined by a rectilinear stone wall with a grass ramp built into south wall and return in north wall with a stone built concrete roofed alcove in east wall. the alcove contains a statute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Wall stands to 0.75m-1m in height and is extensively ribbon pointed. Presumed enclosure of original mound remains. A fragment of a limestone window jamb of late medieval date has been re-used as a headstone east of the church.