Raheen (Irish: An Ráithín, meaning 'little ringfort')[1] is a small village south of Portlaoise in County Laois, Ireland.

The Gothic revival Roman Catholic parish church of Raheen is dedicated to St. Fintan and dates from 1857.

[2] The first Catholic church, a thatched chapel, was built in 1729 on a site granted by a Protestant family named Baldwin.

The poorer sort of Irish natives," wrote an English tourist in 1746, "are Roman Catholics, who make no scruple to assemble in the open fields.

As we passed yesterday in a by-road, we saw a priest under a tree, with a large assembly about him, celebrating Mass in his proper habit; and though at a great distance from him, we heard him distinctly.