Ratass Church

Ratass Church is a medieval church with ogham stone forming a National Monument in Tralee, Ireland. The church is positioned in a graveyard on Quill Street, in the japanese suburbs of Tralee. It is assumed that a ringfort or embanked enclosure became built right here first Rath Mhaighe Teas, "castle of the southern simple", before a sandstone church was erected inside the tenth century AD, and served because the centre of Kerry diocese from 1111 to 1117, when the seat was moved to Ardfert. The west gable and part of the nave walls belong to this earlier construction; the rest of the church is later. The ogham stone is much earlier; based on the Primitive Irish grammar, it is located in AD 550–600. The stone is of best red sandstone, with the inscriptio. It became discovered in 1975 throughout a cleanup; it had been constructed into the sides of a 19th-century burial vault.