page_title: Furnaceland
section_title: Antiquities
hierarchical_section_title: Furnaceland / Antiquities
caption_attribution_description: English: Swanlinbar National School Unfortunately there wasn't a date on the plaque
context_page_description: Furnaceland is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. The original Irish place name was Maghernavinagh, which in Gaelic was either Machaire Eanach, meaning "The Plain of the Marsh" or Machaire Mhianach, meaning "The Plain of the Mine". The town of Swanlinbar is partially situated in Furnaceland.
context_section_description: A medieval earthen ringfort. The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995), Site no. 703, describes it as "Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a slight external earthen bank with a deep internal waterlogged fosse. Inside the bank at north and running parallel to it is a short segment of earthen bank - possibly the remains of a hut site. Break in bank at north-east may represent original entrance. Site is overgrown with vegetation".
  Long Bridge, built c. 1860 to replace an earlier one of 1750.
  Methodist Manse House, built c. 1890 for the Methodist minister, on land donated by Richard Howe and sold for private use in the 1960s.
  Swanlinbar St. Mary's GAA Club. 
  Foot-bridges over the Cladagh and Blackwater rivers.
  A 19th century cattle-pound.
  The ruins of Swanlinbar Iron Foundry, founded c. 1700. The history of this is found under the entry for Swanlinbar.
  St. Augustine's Church of Ireland and Graveyard. It is the oldest building in Swanlinbar, opened on 19 June 1849, as a Chapel of Ease for the convenience of Swanlinbar residents living a distance from the parish church in Kinawley, replacing a thatched building which is shown on Taylor and Skinner's map drawn in summer 1777 and which is referred to in the 1821 census of Ireland as "Macraveny alias Furnishland contains 148 acres of arable & pasture land & 15 acres of bog- there is also a church & burial ground on same". The website www.buildings ofireland.ie describes the building as-  Freestanding Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1849, comprising three-bay nave, three-stage entrance tower at west gable, and chancel to east elevation flanked by vestry lean-tos. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets over projecting eaves course with stone brackets to ends, replacement uPVC rainwater goods to north. Sandstone walls to tower having ashlar finish to upper stages with battlemented parapet and octagonal capstones to corners. String courses marking tower stages with double lancet belfry openings to third stage having timber louvers and hood mouldings with label stops. Single lancets to middle stage. Set-back corners buttresses to ground level stage with coursed rubble sandstone to north elevation and stone shield over entrance with inscription, 'A.D 1849'. Ashlar sandstone to nave front elevation with sandstone string course in line with tower, north elevation having coursed rubble stone, all over bevelled plinth course of larger blocks. Setback corner buttresses with sloped weatherings to all elevations. Paired lancet windows to nave with chamfered sandstone surrounds and hood mouldings on label stops. Foiled triangular opening to apex of east gable, over chancel roof, having timber louvres and sandstone surround. Triple lancet stained glass east window flanked by wall buttresses with weathered gablets, single lancet windows with leaded glass to flanking lean-tos. Pointed arch door opening to south elevation of tower, with chamfered sandstone surround, hood moulding above stringcourse, recent double-leaf door and overlight. Narrower pointed arched doors to chancel lean-tos in similar chamfered surround having original timber double doors with four vertical panels and corresponding fixed timber overpanel. Interior having timber queen-post trusses on rounded braces rising from wall corbels, exposed rafters to nave and chancel. Timber flooring and wainscot to raised pew seating. Choir to east of nave with patterned geometric tiling, flanked by timber pews with pulpit to south and lectern to north. Chancel with patterned tiling and timber furniture. Gallery to rear with timber front of three cross-braced bays with chamfer-stop detail and pronounced cornice profile. Set back from road surrounded by graveyard, bounded by rubble stone walls having curved rubble stone wings flanking entrance with cast-iron double gates supported by ashlar piers. Appraisal- A handsome church designed by Joseph Welland (1798-1860) who in his capacity as architect to the Ecclesiastical Commiss
caption: Swanlinbar National School - geograph.org.uk - 1054611
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