A church for conversion

Tommy Barker views an old church that has recently found other uses.

IT’S Halloween this weekend, but you won’t find things going bump in the night, or by day, at Kiloveenoge church in West Cork.

“From the first moment we walked in here 16 years ago we felt an entirely benevolent energy, something very positive from it, there is nothing at all spooky about here, and it has always been a happy place,” says Swiss-born Thomas Kay. He’s an artist, architect, dancer and generally creative individual who, along with his partner, has had this church as their base since the 1980s.