What is recorded here

Sawleen Crew is a man-made underground passage on a west-facing ridge in County Galway, Ireland. Neary measured its stone-lined chamber in 1914, but rabbit sand had already blocked the eastern passage. The chamber still stands five feet high beneath heavy flags, while the two nearby ringforts watch from the grassland above.

On W-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as an isolated Man-made underground passage; it appears to have been known locally as 'Sálín Crú (Sawleen Crew)' (Topgr. Files, NMI). According to Neary (1914, 119, no. 21). 'The entrance chamber is lined with loose-stone masonry, and is roofed with heavy flags. It is at present 5 ft. [1.5m] wide, 9 ft. [2.75m] long, and 5 ft. high. It was very much deeper. The passage led E. at a depth … of five feet, but it has been clogged with sand by burrowing rabbits'. No visible surface traces survive. Two ringforts (GA005-075---- and GA005-006----) lie 275m to E and 375m to SE respectively. 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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