What is recorded here

West of the rath in Carrownoona, a narrow stone throat stretches four and a half metres into the earth. Its walls rise only twenty centimetres above the soil, yet that slender ridge still marks the deliberate shape of hands long gone. The passage may have breathed for people who moved through darkness before the rath became a ruin, or it may have drained rain from the mound. Either way, the ground kept the shape of human urgency.

The top of the side-walls of an underground passage (L 4.5m; Wth 1.1m; D 0.2m) oriented E-W is visible close to the perimeter of rath (LE003-00901--) at SW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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