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Raholp Church

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The church is of uncertain date; it is a broad rectangle in plan, and was heavily restored in 1915 but more carefully in 1989. Unusually, it has a door in the north and south as well as the east wall. Its most interesting feature is the broken lintel over the east window (possibly re-used from an earlier church?), which has equal-armed crosses lightly incised on its interior face. Beneath it a grave was found during excavations in 1915, and was claimed to be that of St, Tassach himself. To the east of the church there is a cross base, but many of the early Christian carved slabs known from here have, sadly, been stolen.
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Raholp church, .5 mile east-north-east of the village of the same name, is closely linked with St. Tassach who is said to have administered the last rites to St. Patrick and to have been the craftsman who first enshrined his precious staff, the Bachall Iosa, which was burned by zealous Reformers in 1538.
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