Oghamstone from Ratass
The Oghamstone of Ratass (also Rathass , Irish Ráth Teas ), which is dated to the 2nd half of the 6th century AD, stands in the ruins of the Romanesque church of Ratass, in the east of Tralee in County Kerry in Ireland . The first edition of the Ordnance Survey Map shows an oval border line in the east, west and north of the church and its cemetery, which indicates a 230 × 140 m yard or an early church fence.
The 1.45 m high columnar Ogham stone with a cross section of 0.34 × 0.2 m consists of purple sandstone . On the broad side there is an inverted Latin cross made of double lines. The stone was found in a 19th century grave in the southwest corner of the church in 1975. T. Fanning noted that at one time the stone was used as a sharpening stone for blades. The cuts and markings on the stone are similar to those found on several other stones.
The edge of the stone appears to be deliberately sculpted and the Ogham cuts are clean and regular. Fanning believes that an opening A and a closing letter an A or O were rubbed off by the chipping and polishing. The inscription reads: [A] NM SILLANN MAQ VATTILLOGG [A or O]. The translation is: 'Sílán son of Fáithloga?'
A small cross slab is on the wall east of the Oghamstein.
literature
- T. Fanning, D. Ó Corráin: An Ogham stone and cross-slab from Ratass church, Tralee. In: Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historial Society 10, 1977, pp. 14-18.
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland . Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 , p. 118.
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Remarks
- ↑ McManus, Damian: A Guide to Ogam, Maynooth 1991, pp. 96 - 97, §§ 5.28 and 5.30. McManus justifies the temporal classification linguistically; his statements are briefly summarized in [1] (last four lines).
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 1.3 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 54.5" W.