Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

'Located immediately south of a small unnamed stream, with higher ground obscuring the view to the west. The site affords good views of the Stacks Mountains to the north-east, the Sliabh Mis to the south, south-west and south-east and particularly good views of Knockanush Hill and the pass between the hill and the ridge that extends westwards from the Stacks Mountains. The complex is sited on two waulsortian mudmounds or limestone reefs separated by a shallow gully like feature. The more northerly reef is higher than the more southerly, which is 30m away, and the slope of the reef gives a clear view of the more southerly site. The surrounding land has had all its field banks/boundaries removed and has been ploughed and re-seeded with grass. Currently over 100 acres of land has been amalgamated and developed for strip grazing. The constraint shown on the Record of Monuments & Places map effectively delimits two main structures and a number of small cairns and numerous low, grass covered, stone field banks...............Structure A [KE029-110001-] is located on the more northerly reef. It appears to be sub-circular but is if fact not complete as there is no clear trace of an enclosing element to the east, where there is a sharp drop off the reef. The enclosing element around the rest of the site is a low bank, mainly composed of stone, though it is grass covered in places, while protruding areas of bedrock have been incorporated into the bank along its length. The bank is on average 2m wide at base and 0.50m high both internally and externally. Inside the bank there are a number of small outcrops of bedrock, while centrally there are two small rubble cairns measuring 1.6 and 2.3m in diameter respectively and remaining to a height of 0.55m. The dimensions of the area enclosed are 24.8m N-S and 25.9m from W to the edge of the reef at the east.'

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: 03 July 2012