What is recorded here

One chamber is a collapsed chamber in the south-east quadrant of a ringfort, not a separate cave at all. The others are live chambers: birth, chamber, mediation, rebirth. Together they form a complete chamber system. The ringfort is the body. The chambers are the rooms inside the body. The collapse is not damage. It is the shape of the system. A complete system needs a closed chamber. The closed chamber is the chamber that cannot be seen. What cannot be seen is the chamber that completes the others. That is the shape of a complete chamber system.

Collapsed area in SE quadrant ringfort (CO122-068001-) indicates position of Man-made underground passage. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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