What is recorded here

Underground in a Cork ringfort, a narrow stone passage and two earth-cut chambers still hold their shape. The main chamber measures eight feet eight inches long, three feet wide and three feet ten inches high. A shorter creepway joins it at the south-west corner, and a thin infilled passage runs eastwards for twenty-two feet four inches. The entrance is closed now, but the depression and exposed slabs still mark where the passage emerges.

In NW quadrant of ringfort (8339). Coleman (1947, 70) described sub-rectangular earth-cut chamber (long axis N-S; L 8ft 8in; Wth 3ft; H 3ft 10in); creepway at SW corner to chamber 2:(long axis E-W; L 6ft 6in; Wth 3ft 6in; H 3ft); both partially filled with earth and stones. Infilled stone-built passage (L 22ft 4in; Wth 1ft 10in; H 18in) extends eastwards from N end of chamber 1, visible on surface as depression with four slabs exposed. Coleman suggests oval-shaped depression at E end of passage is original entrance; chamber 1 entered by Coleman through deliberate opening at NW end. Coleman (ibid. also noted hollow (diam. 5ft) with traces of stone walling on its W side, c. 7ft to S 'as remains of a further chamber or of some other structure (such as a hut site)'. Entrance now closed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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