What is recorded here

No stone, seam or breath-hole marks the ground above, yet a man-made chamber lies hidden beneath the Ballaghboy burial field. People dug through solid earth to build a room no instrument could have shaped, then sealed the entrance and walked away. The dead rest above that forgotten workspace, pressing their quiet weight on human ambition below.

In burial ground (CO126-013---). Underground chamber discovered; closed in recent past (O'Shea and Crowley 1972, 101). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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