What is recorded here

Two chambers, according to local tradition, though only one is visible: a small semicircular room barely tall enough to crouch, closed by a displaced lintel and choking soil. The second may have collapsed, been filled deliberately, or never have existed at all. On a narrow ridge in County Mayo, flanked by wet pasture and bog, the passage waits beneath brambles and grass, remembering the shape of the hand that built it.

In pasture, on a low narrow ridge flanked at N and S by lowlying, wettish pasture and bog. There are good views in all directions. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; marked as ‘Man-made underground passage’ on the 1916 edition. Irregular-shaped pit (c. 4m N−S; 3m E−W; D 1m) bordered on the N side by a low mound (2m N−S; 3m E−W; H 0.6m) of earth, partly obscured by clumps of brambles. A lintelled opening is exposed in the SW side of the pit, with a large slab, probably a displaced lintel, lying adjacent. The opening reveals a small, semicircular drystone chamber (1.4m E−W; c. 1m N−S; H c. 0.6m) which is partly filled with soil. According to local tradition, the Man-made underground passage has two chambers. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022

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