Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
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
- 52.26699, -9.68190
- SMR number
- KE029-157006-
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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
The basal remains of a possible baptismal font or stoup now concreted onto the south elevation of Ratass church (KE029-157001-).
See attached plan and photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 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 Unpublished report for The Heritage Office, Kerry County Council (SMR file).
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.