reanascreena

Situated at a height of 570 feet above sea level and 3 miles inland from Ross Carbery, rush-stifled Reanascreena is a little known megalithic ring of twelve uprights and an axial stone. It is surrounded by a 12-feet wide fosse with an external earthen bank, a rare feature which suggests close cultural links with the henge monuments. A comparable but smaller embanked stone circle is at Glentane East in the same country.

When the Reanascreena site was scientifically examined in the early 1960's, it was found that peat had formed over the original floor of the circle and fosse, a process likely to have started in the last millennium BC, when bog growth accelerated as a result of changing climatic conditions.

The ground in the vicinity of the portal stones showed evidence of erosion, thought by the excavator to have been caused by repeated trampling over a long period; so that the users of the circle had found it necessary to reinforce this area with small boulders to prevent the orthostats from falling.

Seemingly prehistoric peoples had habitually danced or walked here in observance of some ritual.