What is recorded here
Three small dark circles sit twenty-five metres apart in marshy Flemby land, overlooking the Stacks Mountains. They may have marked homes, burial places or gathering spots for people who read the valley long before written records. The ditch edges still hold their shape beneath grass and rain, inviting imagination rather than certainty.
'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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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