What is recorded here

Rahelty Church (in Ruins), Grave Yard is a graveyard in Rahelty, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies flat, poorly drained land at the base of an east-facing slope, with a nearby tower house to the west. The surviving church remains include a south wall rising about 1.7 metres, a destroyed chancel window and an aumbry, while the graveyard holds eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones inside a nineteenth-century wall.

Situated at the base of an E-facing slope on flat poorly drained land with a nearby tower house (TN042-004002) to the W. The cropmark of an enclosure (TN042-005001) around the church (TN042-005002) represents the boundary of glebe land as indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The poorly preserved remains of a nave and chancel church (TN042-005002) of which only the S wall survives to a height of approx. 1.7m. In the chancel there is a destroyed window and aumbry in the S wall. Described in the OS Letters as a dilapidated church consisting of a nave and chancel of which the N wall is destroyed to foundation level with the E and W gables covered in ivy. The graveyard contains eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones and is enclosed by a nineteenth-century graveyard wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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