Converted church offers spirit enhancing views

A CHURCH that has been through one conversion process is about to face another change.

Killoveenogue, near Bantry in West Cork, is home to a former chapel of ease built for an overflow of worshippers at nearby Durrus church: the local congregation had been swelled by the arrival of large numbers of Cornish miners in the mid 1800s.

Built in 1856, this former Church of Ireland chapel was deconsecrated in 1988, and was bought some time later at auction by a trio of Swiss nationals living in the area, who slowly and steadily renovated the cavity-constructed stone and brick building.