Discover Alone, back to main map

Ring-ditch in Flemby

Ring-ditch

What is recorded here

Three dark rings, ten to eighteen metres wide and spaced twenty-five metres apart, still trace themselves through the marshy soil beneath Flemby. They face the Stacks Mountains like markers set for someone who watched weather arrive from the north. The land is level enough for traffic but wet enough to keep secrets, suggesting these were not grand monuments but small working places where ordinary life repeated itself until memory faded.
'Located in level but slightly marshy land at the base of the hills forming the eastern extent of the Slabh Mis, close to LVS039 007, above. The site again affords good views of the Stacks Mountains to the north. The site was noted on colour aerial photography and consists of three small circular crop marks (KE039-203----, KE039-204----, KE039-205----) showing up as dark lines on the photograph. The sites are arranged in a linear group approximately 25m apart and have diameters ranging from approximately 10-18m.' 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: 25 June 2012

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places