placenamesRatass
Ráth Teas
Ratass’s church preserves an early doorway alongside an ogham stone and a carved cross slab.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ráth Teas · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ratass · English · main form
Place & story
Surviving fabric at Ratass
The Office of Public Works describes Ratass’s earliest church as a single room built of local purple sandstone in the tenth century. Its western end and main doorway survived later enlargement: an eastern extension created separate nave and chancel spaces, and a doorway was added on the south. The site also contains an ogham stone thought to date from the sixth century and a cross slab dated broadly to between 600 and 900. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.26839, -9.66702
- Mapped area
- 28.77 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1122 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ratass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ratass Church and Ogham Stone · Office of Public Works, Heritage Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.