What is recorded here

Two low burnt mounds stood in the marshy ground of Dromavally until an unauthorised road for a telecommunications mast crushed them in 1999. Sieving the excavated earth revealed fire-shattered stone and charcoal, proving they were not ordinary soil but ancient heat made visible. The mast site is abandoned, yet the road remains, a modern scar across a place where human hands once transformed water and stone into something new.

'The land in this area is relatively marshy and the enclosure holds water after prolonged periods of rain. Two low mounds were located 25m to the north of the enclosure [KE038-131---] and these were destroyed by the construction of an unauthorised access road to a O2 telecommunications mast site in 1999 (since abandoned). Archaeological sieving of the material excavated for the access road clearly indicates that these mounds contained burnt and fire shattered stone as well as charcoal. The larger more westerly mound (KE038-132----) measured 4.3m by 3.3m and was 0.31m in height, the smaller more easterly mound (KE038-133----) measured 3.1m by 3m and was only 0.22m in height. A distinct trough area was not visible in either mound.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

A burnt mound; likely Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with ritual or domestic activities involving heat, common in early farming communities.

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