Rear Cross

Rearcross or Rear Cross () is a village in the townland of Reardnogy in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is in the Slieve Felim Mountains, 25 km east of Limerick on the R503 Thurles to Limerick road. The village is in the Roman Catholic parish of Kilcommon and Hollyford and Rearcross, in the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and also in the historical barony of Owney and Arra.

==Rearcross Church== Rearcross Church was designed by a Swiss architect for a Wesleyan congregation. It was a temporary structure situated in Northumbria and used by the mining community there. During the 1880s the community at Rearcross had to walk quite a distance to hear mass in the absence of a local church. At the time, diocesan funds were heavily committed to finishing the cathedral in Thurles and with resources stretched the bishop dispatched the local priests on fund-raising drives to America. The parish priest in Rearcross, Fr. William J. McKeogh, on one such expedition succeeded in raising the sum of £4,400 in America while other priests returned with less.