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Saint Carthach's Church (Rahan)

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Saint Carthach's Church (Rahan)
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Detached two-bay single-storey Romanesque church, originally cruciform; built c.1175 with nave largely rebuilt 1732. Set within graveyard. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and cross finial. Roughcast render to walls. Round-headed windows to nave with timber stained glass tracery windows and tooled limestone sills, Romanesque window to chancel with chevron design to window-head, flanked by engaged columns with oculus window above, ogee-headed window to north with carved limestone surround with animal head decoration. Round-headed door opening to nave with timber battened door with cast-iron furniture and boot scrapper and stained glass fanlight and date plaque of 1732 above. Set within graveyard with upstanding and recumbent headstones, bounded by random rubble wall and wrought-iron gate. Cemetery to south.

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