Some years ago here, I wrote about a visit to the “remote” (my description) Tipperary outpost of Rearcross. The column was mostly about the village’s pretty tin church which, as I said, looked like a little piece of New England dropped among the Slieve Felim Mountains.
In fact, it’s more a piece of Old England, or Wales anyway – a former miners’ church that became redundant there when the congregation moved on, and was bought, dismantled and shipped to Ireland for a new life.
I was reminded of all this by an email from Prof Gerry Boyle, who edits a Christmas magazine, Echoes of the Hills, for the parish including Rearcross, and asked if he could reprint the piece.
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