The photo on the left shows the old church. The photo on right of the new church was kindly sent to me by Rev. Elizabeth Hanna, rector of the parish in 2005.

In 1557 the Down Survey mentions that there was an old ruined church in the parish but nothing much remained of it then. In 1703 the parish was annexed to Garvaghy because of the dilapidated state of the church and small congregation.

The old church on the summit of 450 ft hill, was built in 1770 (see above left ) and was described in 1836 as a plain building capable of holding about 300 people. It is 30 feet to the north of where the even 'older' church stood. The Glebe House is a little to the north east of the church near the new church. It stood proudly on the little hill and one of its earliest marriages was that of Hugh Bronte and Alice McClory, grandparents of the famous Bronte sisters, who eloped here from Emdale in 1776. It was abandoned & left roofless in 1886 when the new church, above, was built just up the road . The rector in 1892 was Rev. George Made & in 1910 was Rev. R. Quirk.

old records destroyed in the Dublin fire of 1922; baptisms & burials from 1880 & marriages from 1845; graveyard at the old church , gravestone inscriptions UHF Vol 20; oldest stone 1697; email me for a gravestone lookup