Cave in Cathair Na Gaoithe, passage in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Contained within the bank at E is a stone-built chamber (KE106-048001-), 4.4m long and 1.1m wide. Its corbelled walls are built of regular coursing and the end-walls are slightly curved. No roofing slabs are preserved, and access to the chamber must have been through its roof. Cork University Press (1996), no. 474.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE106-048001

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