What is recorded here

Thirty years of rain erased the eastern entrance, yet the western lintel still hangs open above a narrow stone throat. The passage stretches twenty metres beneath the rath, bending like a forgotten thought before collapsing into itself. Someone cut this tunnel through living rock, perhaps to hide grain, perhaps to escape floodwater, perhaps simply to prove that human hands could reshape the earth. The cave swallowed its own maker and kept the shape of their intention.

Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA113-025----). Two ‘Caves’ shown on the OS 6-inch maps proved on inspection to be two access points to the same poorly preserved drystone-built Man-made underground passage (L >21m). Only the westernmost access point, a displaced roof lintel, is now open; the eastern one has been covered over. At ground level the Man-made underground passage is visible as a roughly L-shaped depression. The long passage (L 13m; Wth 1.75m; H 1.3m) runs WNW-ESE. At the W end of NW side-wall an air vent is evident. The short passage (L 8m) extends off the E end this side-wall and runs NNE-SSW. Most of the latter passage has collapsed, as has the junction between both passages. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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