Raised up above the road and visitors car park this lovely ruin is very worth taking a look at. As you approach the church up the steps you first see the doorway in the west end with its huge lintel stone, said to weigh seven tons. This lintel is one of the Seven Wonders of Fore because St. Feichin is said to have raised it up by the "power of prayer". It has a Maltese cross carved on the outside face.
Moving inside the 10th century part of the building there is a stone font just inside the door. In the centre of the room there is a modern plinth with a layout of the church and a legend describing the ages of each section. The east end was extended in the 12th century and later, in the 15th century, the east window was replaced.
On the arch between the two sections there is a carving of a sitting man (monk?).
The graveyard contains a restored uncarved cross to the east with a headless statue standing next to it.
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