Man-made underground passage in An Bóthar Buí — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

An oval rath in An Bóthar Buí, County Kerry, holds two low beehive chambers connected by a narrow passage. Men revealed the holes while widening a laneway, then buried them again. The small dark rooms may have served as storage, refuge or a forgotten ritual place, but human life has stopped answering from inside them.

Oval rath KE053-009---- with Man-made underground passage KE053-009001- lies at the junction of 4 fields on a gentle N facing slope. When the laneway was being widened about 9 years ago, a Man-made underground passage was discovered outside the bank in the S sector, but was subsequently covered over again. It consisted of 2 circular, beehive-shaped chambers connected by a passage. Neither chamber was high enough to provide standing room. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 353. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

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