What is recorded here

Burnt spread in Ballyhenry is a levelled monument in County Kerry, Ireland, where fire-cracked sandstone still lies scattered across dry ground beside wet bog. Machines probably flattened the site in recent years, yet the surviving patches preserve a place where people once burned, marked or transformed something valuable. The land has been covered and forgotten, but the hot stones beneath remember the event that changed them.

This levelled burnt spread is situated on dry ground, approximately 100m to the W of a large area of wet boggy ground. What remains of this monument is a series of patches of burnt and fire-cracked sandstone mixed with topsoil, probably the result of levelling by machine in the recent past. The patches of burnt stone were spread across an area measuring approximately 15m N-S by 12m E-W. A possible stone-filled trough was noted, measuring 3.5m NW-SE by 1.5m NE-SW. The entire area was covered in terram and topsoil and preserved in situ. Compiled by: Frank Coyne Date of upload/revision: 8 March 2022

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