Rahelty (civil parish)

For other uses, see Rahelty (disambiguation).

Rahelty, sometimes written Rahealty, is a civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland.^[1] It is one of 21 civil parishes in the historical barony of Eliogarty. It contains eighteen townlands:

• Archerstown
• Athlummon
• Cassestown
• Coolaculla
• Corbally
• Drish
• Garranroe
• Knockanacunna
• Knockroe
• Kyle
• Lisduff
• Loughbeg
• Piercetown
• Rahelty
• Rathcriddoge
• Rathmanna
• Shanballyduff
• Townagha

Location of Rahelty in the civil parishes of north Tipperary

The lands of the civil parish are divided into two disjoint areas by a strip of Thurles civil parish which stretches eastward to meet Borrisleigh civil parish. The, larger, northern area of Rahelty contains these ten townlands: Athlummon, Cassestown, Coolaculla, Garranroe, Knockanacunna, Lisduff, Piercetown, Rahelty, Rathcriddoge and Shanballyduff. The southern area contains the eight remaining townlands: Archerstown, Corbally, Drish, Knockroe, Kyle, Loughbeg, Rathmanna and Townagha.