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church located in

Ballinadee Ballinadee () is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It lies in the parish of Courceys, approximately 12 km by road west of Kinsale and 9 km south east of Bandon. Ballinadee is on the banks of the River Pound, which flows into the Rive ...

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. It was completed in 1759. It is part of the Bandon Union of Parishes, in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.

History

The church was originally built in 1759. The tower was added around 1837. Around this time, the church was also rebuilt. Ballinadee Church is one of five constituent churches of the Bandon Union of Parishes, of which Denis MacCarthy is the Canon.

Architecture

The church building consists of a three-

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with a single-bay

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and a three-stage bell tower. The north transept was added by

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in 1869.

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* * * {{refend Architecture in Ireland Churches in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross Gothic Revival church buildings in the Republic of Ireland 18th-century Church of Ireland church buildings