Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rahan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.13990, -8.56953
- SMR number
- CO033-086----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On S side of road. A 2-storey residential house, rectangular in plan (long axis E-W). Road front (N) of 3 bays, with central rectangular door ope and plate-glass sash windows; ground-floor windows have limestone sills. Hipped roof with central brick chimney stack. Single-storey gabled addition against E elevation; lean-to addition to rear. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map and named 'Methodist Chapel'; indicated but not named on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 480) refers to it as 'a small meeting-house for Wesleyan Methodists'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.