What is recorded here

Ring-ditch in Clashatlea hides two small circular ditches beneath a ordinary field at the eastern end of the Sliabh Mis. The buried lines appear only when grass grows uneven above them, marking places where people may have stood, excluded others or simply shaped the land long before roads arrived. The Stacks Mountains still rise to the north, watching the same quiet ground where human hands made temporary differences the soil has nearly forgotten.

'Located in land that rises gently from the north to the south, at the eastern end of the Sliabh Mis, this site affords good views of the Stacks Mountains to the north and the low-lying land towards Castleisland to the east. This site was identified on colour aerial photography in a field that had at the time been cut for silage. The site consists of two small circular crop marks, clearly shown as dark lines, indicating a buried ditch, on the photograph. The crop marks are small with the more easterly being slightly smaller. The approximate size of the crop marks is 10m and 12m in diameter respectively. No trace of these features is visible at ground level.' 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

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