What is recorded here

Two narrow stone tubes, barely sixty centimetres wide, still lie buried beneath the pasture west of Ballyhale. Built with careful sandstone walls and flat capstones, they may have carried water or air for a nearby 19th century mill rather than serving people directly. The tubes turned the ordinary field into a hidden machine, forcing human ingenuity downward instead of upward.

In pasture on the S side of the road leading W out of Ballyhale village. A Man-made underground passage in a hollow near a stream was noted during a field inspection in 1989. A large capstone with other smaller stones around it was described and the passage appeared to extend NW-SE but was inaccessible. Test-trenching in the same area in 2007 in advance of a proposed housing scheme (Licence no. 07E0524) revealed two subterranean features comprising boulder and sandstone walls topped with flatter, well-laid capstones at a depth of 1.8m beneath the present ground surface. Although the construction is of the style associated with Man-made underground passages the dimensions were very small (Wth 0.6m; H 0.6m). The passages may have been associated with an adjacent 19th century mill. (Henry 2007; Henry 2010, 232, no. 874) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 November 2013

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