Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
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
- 52.26705, -9.68187
- SMR number
- KE029-157003-
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
A seventeenth-century coat of arms of the Creagh family fixed into the inner face of the north wall of the nave of Ratass Church (KE029-157001-). According to Harbison (1972, 13) 'It was probably during the work of 1908 that the seventeenth-century coat of arms of the Creagh family was fixed into the inner face of the north wall of the nave. It was possibly also at the same time that a stone was reset about 2.5m above ground level near the western end of the north wall of the nave on which there is a mason's mark of uncertain date, though possibly the reconstruction of around 1700'.
See attached photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 27 April 2022
References
Dunne, L. 2012 Archaeological GPS Survey, Ratass Graveyard, Tralee, Co. Kerry. Unpublished report for The Heritage Office, Kerry County Council (SMR file).
Harbison, P. 1972 The Building History of Ratass Church, Tralee. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 5, 5-13.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 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.