Caves in Ballycorban, passage in County Galway

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What is recorded here

Within W sector of the interior a rath (GA125-013----). Indicated on 1st and 3rd (1920) eds. of OS maps by two small dots aligned NW-SE and named ‘Caves’. The dots may indicate two points of access. The landowner recalled a ‘small tunnel’, which was subsequently blocked up. No visible surface trace of it survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA125-013001

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