Provenance
Discovery: 1975 (vi in McManus, p. 71)
Findspot: Ratass (Ráth Teas , Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates: 485205, 614149)
Last recorded location(s): in situ (inside church ruin)
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE029-157002-
Object type: Cross-carved pillar
Material: Sandstone
Dimensions:
Decoration: ‘On the opposite broad face to the ogham and placed at the wider end of the pillar stone [upside down in relation to the ogham inscription] is a simple Latin cross composed of double grooves. It has closed terminals except at the stem which is open-ended’ (Fanning and Ó Corráin 1977, 15)
Condition: Fanning (1977, 14) describes the stone as ‘fine purple sandstone’ and notes that, unusually, the edge of the stone appears to have been deliberately dressed or shaped and that ‘the dressing on the top of the ogham inscription is similar to the pocking behind the cross’.
Inscription
Text field: The inscription is typically up-top-down (starting on the dexter or left angle). However, in it’s current position the ogham inscription is up-side-down so that the cross is at the top.
Letters: V-cut? in neat, evenly-spaced strokes. Also, used as ‘a sharpening stone for knives and other blades’ with areas of ‘smoothing and polishing together with quite deep scoring’ (Fanning 1977, 14-15)
Edition
Transcription: [A]NM SILLANN MAQ VATTILLOGG
References
- Macalister 1945, …