Ray Church / Teampall Ráithe

According to a local tradition, the first church at Ray was founded b y St. Fionan in the sixth century.
A Church survived there until the seventeenth century, when it was destroyed by a platoon of Cromwellian soldiers under the command of Captain Cunningham.
The soldiers burst open the door one Sunday morning, during Mass, and slaughtered the congregation.
This came to be known as The Massacre of Ray (Marfach Ráithe).
The dead are buried within two hundred meters of the church at a place called Resting Place of the Bones (Lag na gCnámh).
The church continued to be used by the Church of Ireland until the early 19th century.
Many members of the Olphert land-owning family of Ballyconnel are buried here.