What is recorded here

Ballyva holds a rock-cut chamber discovered in 1984 inside a ringfort. People chiselled four and a half metres through boulder clay, built a dry-stone wall at one end, and left a collapsed shaft at the other. They filled it back after looking, but the shape remains clear: a narrow underground room made deliberately, not dropped from the sky.

Discovered 1984 in SW quadrant ringfort (CO144-030001-). Single rock-cut chamber (4.5m N-S; max. 1.3m E-W; H c.1m) with roof cut into boulder clay. Construction shaft, partially collapsed, at NW end: dry-stone walling at S end (functioned as revetment or roof support). Backfilled subsequent to investigation. 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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