Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Ratass, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ratass
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26704, -9.68188
- SMR number
- KE029-157002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
National Monument No. 57. Discovered in 1975 during a routine clean-up of the interior of the ancient church at Ratass (Fanning and Ó Corráin 1977) the stone has been set up beside the N wall of the nave. It consists of a fine purple sandstone, 1.45m high x 0.34m x 0.20m, bearing a simple Latin cross and the following inscription: [A]NM SILLANN MAQ VATTILLOGG. The edge of the stone 'appears to have been deliberately dressed or shaped and the incisions are clean, regular and unweathered' (ibid., 14)
This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=Ratass
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 6 January 2015
References
Fanning, T. and Ó Corráin, D. 1977 An ogham stone and cross-slab from Ratass church, near Tralee. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 14–18.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.