placenamesRear Cross
Crois na Rae
The Church of Our Lady of Visitation is an unusually elaborate example of a metal-clad church assembled at Rear Cross.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Crois na Rae · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rear Cross · English · main form
Place & story
A church brought to the village
The Church of Our Lady of Visitation was re-erected at Rear Cross in 1887 after earlier use by a Methodist congregation in Britain. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records a restoration around 2000 and rates the building as being of national significance. [2]
Metal outside, timber within
Corrugated iron covers the walls and main roof, with decorative cast-iron cresting above. The cruciform plan incorporates a tower and spire at a front corner. Inside, timber boarding and an exposed roof with arched braces contrast with the metal exterior; galleries occupy the rear and both transepts. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Civil parish
- Abington
- Coordinates
- 52.68424, -8.23736 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 67247 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rear Cross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Church of Our Lady of Visitation, Reardnogy More, Rear Cross: 22403801 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The corrugated-iron church at Rear Cross, County Tipperary, as photographed in September 2007 illustration: based on a Rearcross, County Tipperary by Sarah777. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.