What is recorded here

A narrow, silted chamber hides beneath the Killarney-Tralee railway embankment, marked only by a heavy lintel and a cluster of loose stones. Ferns choke the entrance, but the passage still stretches more than a metre into the dark earth. A 1939 account claimed it linked upward to another chamber inside a nearby rath, suggesting the railway bank once covered a hidden doorway between human-made spaces.

On the E embankment of the Killarney-Tralee railway. A linear depression (L 1.85m; Wth 0.85m; D c. 0.7m; long axis N-S) leads down to a Man-made underground passage opening, surrounded by ferns. The opening is defined by a large lintel and a concentration of large loose stones. The Man-made underground passage, which is silted up, can be traced for at least 1.1m. According to a local correspondent writing in 1939, there was 'a hole in the top of the railway bank' and a 'passage' connected this Man-made underground passage to a Man-made underground passage (KE066-040001-) in the rath (KE066-040----), c. 100m to the NW on the opposite side of the railway (SMR file). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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