What is recorded here

Boolacullane hides a breath-held chamber inside its rath, where a low creepway forces everyone to bend before entering the dark. The passage extends southeast through earth and stone, narrowing until collapse and infill block the way, suggesting the builders intended a route longer than the surviving structure. The chamber appeared during ploughing in the 1970s, when the passage was partially dug out in an attempt to trace it further. The act of tracing implies the route resisted being known, as if the earth had taken back the far end.

In a rath (KE048-088----). A slab-covered opening (c. 0.65m E-W; c. 0.55m N-S) in the bank of the rath at NW, leads into a stone-lined corbelled chamber (1.9m N-S; 1.7m E-W) roofed with a single slab. A creepway (H 0.6m; Wth 0.3m), the walls and roof of which are lined with single stones, extends to the SE from the chamber. An earth-cut passage (L c. 4m; Wth c. 1m) extends to the SE, beyond the creepway. The passage narrows towards the SE end where some collapse was noted. The floor at the SE end is raised by infill. According to the landowner, a slab covering the stone-built chamber was revealed during ploughing in the 1970s and at that time the passage was partially dug out in an attempt to trace it further. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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