

The Roman Catholic St Joseph’s church in Valleymount, County Wicklow originally dates from 1803 but its granite facade and porch were added around 1835. With pilasters rising above the level parapet to piers topped with slender decorative pinnacles, it is claimed that the porch was either designed by a local priest inspired by churches he had seen on a visit to Malta, or was constructed by parishioners who had visited New Mexico (now Texas). Only the deadening expanse of tarmacadam around the building would remind visitors that they were in Ireland. Inside, the side aisles hold a two pairs of bejewelled stained glass windows from the Harry Clarke studios, installed in the 1930s.





Looks more like a fantasy from a Wizard of Oz movie/stage set! But those windows are stunning, gorgeous and any other adjective you can think of to use.
Pity more people don’t know where harry Clarkes and his studio’s oeuvres are located.
Not sure what you mean by “New Mexico (now Texas)”. New Mexico and Texas were both provinces of New Spain during the Spanish colonial period and passed to independent Mexico in the early 19th century. Both were absorbed (with some boundary changes) by the United States after the Mexican War in the 1840s and eventually both became states.
Some territory that used to be part of the Spanish province of New Mexico is now in the modern state of Texas, but most of it still belongs to New Mexico state.