What is recorded here

Flambys burnt mound is a circular scar six metres wide and thirty-one centimetres high in a marshy Kerry field. It faces the Stacks Mountains and may be what remained when a larger site was lost to improving land. People may have heated stones there, poured water over them and watched steam rise toward the hills. The mound keeps that much of the gesture even though the trough and most of the shape have disappeared.

'Located in the south-western corner of a relatively flat marshy field the site affords reasonably good views in all directions, particularly to the north and the Stacks Mountains. The land here has been improved to some degree and this low mound may well represent the remains of what was a larger site. The mound is circular, 6.2m in diameter with no evidence for a trough and it remains to a maximum height of 0.31m.' 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: 20 June 2012

A Neolithic burnt mound; date to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Such features are often associated with ritual or industrial activities, and their presence indicates early human settlement and land use in the region.

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