| Doora Church | |
| Other Name: | St Brecan's |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 52.8403°N -8.9606°W |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
| Founder: | Saint Brecan |
| Status: | Ruined |
| Materials: | Stone |
| Parish: | Doora, County Clare |
Doora Church (Irish: Teampull Dúrain), also known as St Brecan, Doora, is a ruined church in the civil parish of Doora, County Clare, Ireland. It may date back to 500 AD, although it has been extensively reworked since then.
The church may have been founded by Saint Brecan around 500 AD.If Brecan was the founder, as tradition states, it would have been one of the first central mission churches in Clare.It is mentioned in 1189.At this time the church, which is near Kilbrecan, was called Durinierekin.Brecan also founded what is now called Carntemple about to the east of Doora Church.An 1842 map notes that the church was in ruins and shows it about southwest of what was then the hamlet of Doora, which lay in the west of the townland of Ballaghboy in the parish of Doora. The church itself lies in the townland of Bunnow. It is about east of the River Fergus, opposite the town of Ennis.
According to John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry, writing in 1839:
Writing in 1900 the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp described the church as follows:
A website maintained by King's College London recorded in 2015 that the church had changed little since it was described by Westropp, apart from the fact that the arch stone of the west window of the south wall had fallen to the ground to the south of the church. The sculpture was so badly worn that it could not be dated, but the moldings of the windows seemed to date to the 12th century.The south door had been repaired with a concrete gable.