What is recorded here

Bonane Heritage Park holds a ten-metre circle of thirteen stones where six still stand upright on a SW-facing slope. The tallest entrance stone reaches 1.4m, framing a fallen quartz-veined companion and a flat-topped axial marker at the opposite side. A central boulder-burial and an eastern fulacht fia suggest the circle served both death and feast, binding memory and sustenance within the same stone boundary.

In Bonane Heritage Park, on a break on a SW-facing slope. A circle (diam. 10m) of probably thirteen stones, six of which are upright. The stones measure L 0.75-1.55m; T 0.4-0.8m and H 0.8-1.4m. One of the entrance stones at the NNE, a quartz-veined boulder, has fallen. The other entrance stone (1m x 0.8m; H 1.4m) is the tallest stone. The flat-topped axial stone (1.6m x 0.8m; H 0.8m) stands at SSW. A boulder-burial (KE102-032003-) occupies the centre of the interior. A fulacht fia (KE102-032004-) lies c. 25m to the E. 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

Probably dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, given the typical construction of stone circles in these periods. Such circles may have had ceremonial, astronomical, or communal functions, though specific folklore or use for this site is not recorded.

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