Take a virtual tour of Seagoe Parish Church
You don’t need a head for heights to admire Seagoe’s newly restored bell tower, thanks to a virtual tour now available online.
The tour was part of a grant package awarded for extensive work to the tower and entrance porch.
The tower’s stonework was repointed and some repaired, including the diocesan plaque above the entrance door. Internally, the three upper floors were replaced, the entrance porch retiled and the walls were replastered and painted.
A new electronic ringing mechanism was also installed and on Easter Day 2019 the bell rang out for the first time in over 30 years.
All of this can be closely inspected in the 3D tour, as well as the church’s interior and some parts of the exterior.
Historic site
Seagoe Parish Church, St Gobhan’s, sits on one of the oldest recorded sites of Christianity in Ireland. Christian links to the area date back to the early 500 AD’s.
The name of the parish has always been associated with Saint Gobhan, indeed at one time it wasn’t referred to as a church but always as the house of Gobhan or in Latin “Sedes Gobhani”. It is said that through the years this became abbreviated to Seagoe, the name of the parish up to the present.
Pay a virtual visit to Seagoe Parish Church by clicking on this link.