Man-made underground passage — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible entrance exists in the ground, but a displaced roof lintel in the first chamber opens a dark throat into the hill. The passage runs east-west for twelve metres before a narrow creep forces the body to bend, then opens again into a second chamber angled northwest-southeast. Stone walls still stand though the eastern half has lost its roof, and the whole structure sits buried inside the southern half of a ringfort. Whatever purpose it served, it was built to be hidden, entered reluctantly, and forgotten by the people who once lived above it.

Within S half of a ringfort (GA029-010----). Fairly well-preserved drystone-built Man-made underground passage consisting of two chambers connected by a creep. Present access via displaced roof lintel in 1st chamber L 12m, Wth 1.7m) which runs E-W. The E half is robbed out. A creep and short passage (L 4m, Wth 0.9m) near SW end lead to 2nd chamber (L 8m) which runs NW-SE. (Costello 1902b, 111; Costello 1903, 3-4) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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