What is recorded here

Bonane Heritage Park holds a horseshoe of burnt stone where heat and water collided. The mound faces a wet area, suggesting people threw glowing rocks into water to create steam or cook food. A fallen tree has broken through the grass, exposing the ancient material beneath its roots. This is not a passive ruin but a place where human effort transformed nature through repeated fire.

In Bonane Heritage Park, on an undulating SW-facing slope, in the valley of the Sheen River. A horseshoe-shaped grass-covered mound (10.6m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE; H 1.3m) of burnt material with an opening (2.8m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW) facing a wet area to the NW. The mound material is exposed around the roots of a fallen tree. A multiple-stone circle and boulder-burial (KE102-032002-, KE102-032003-) lie c. 25m to the W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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