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Man-made underground passage in Behy More

Man-made underground passage

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That is the smallest chamber I have ever seen. Half a metre high, perhaps less, with a stone lid set askew across the mouth. Someone built it deliberately, not a rabbit hole or a collapsed root cellar. They made a room small enough to sit inside, then hid it under a rath in County Mayo. The size stops being a mistake the moment you imagine the person who chose it.
Located in the interior of a rath (MA031-050----), close to bank in the SW quadrant. A surface opening (0.4m x 0.6m), bordered on one side by an in situ lintel, reveals a passage or chamber (H c. 0.9m) of drystone construction. A displaced lintel blocks access to the passage. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 June 2018

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