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C2221 : Ruined church (Tullyaughlish Old Church) RameltonC2221 : Ramelton Old ChurchC2221 : Bishop of Aughnish crest

Tullyaughnish Old Church was "built by Sir William Stewart and almost completed at the time of Pynnar's survey of 1619. The ruined walls and gable all stand to their original height, with massive buttresses at the east end . The most interesting feature is the well-preserved Perpendicular east window of four lights with rather jumbled mullions above. The confusion and debased appearance are caused by a tracery dagger reused from a late medieval church and clumsily incorporated upside down above the middle mullion.

"Outside on the gable over the window is a highly decorated 12th-century stone with an arch of bead moulding and two beasts, taken from the Romanesque church of St Columb on Aughnish Island." - AlisTAir Rowan, North West Ulster (Buildings of Ireland series), 1979.

The old church was replaced by the present C2220 : St Paul's Church of Ireland in the parish of Tullyaughnish, Ramelton in the 1820s.