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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 218

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    The ruins of the church in Lurgan old graveyard are just adequate to form an estimate in the style in which it was built.
    The two side walls have almost completely disappeared but substantial portions of the South East and North West gables remains.
    The position of the doors and windows is not known with certainty.
    It is said that the church had no chancel. The masonry is of the plainest kind and it typical of the minor religious foundations of the Reformation times.
    The stones are rough and uncut the spaces between being filled with mortar
    This in the course of time has become as hard as the stones themselves.
    The general plan of the building is rectangular. The church was
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