
What is recorded here
Twelve broken wall lines still mark a limestone reef above Tralee Bay, perhaps twenty metres long and barely forty centimetres high. They may have divided grass, goats, flame or memory before written maps existed. The stones do not claim to be grand; they claim to have watched the water turn.
'Located on a limestone reef 90m north-west of that on which KE028-090---- is located. The reef affords commanding views in all directions particularly toTralee Bay at the south and south-west. The surface of the reef bears up to 12 separate short stretches of low stone walls (KE028-117----), sometimes composed of limestone rubble and at other times composed of lines intermittent boulders with some rubble between. The longest stretch of wall measures 20m and remains to a height of only 0.45m.'
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: 05 July 2012
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