What is recorded here
Kilsallaghan castle shadowed a hidden passage, likely a souterrain, though no marker exists to prove the claim. The absence of evidence does not diminish the possibility that people dug through living rock to build a chamber for storage, prayer or escape. A missing chamber is not nothing. It is a request to imagine the hands that cut it and the doors they closed behind them.
There is a local tradition of a subterranean feature in the environs of Kilsallaghan castle (Clinton, M.2005, 34). This may be the remains of a souterrrain. Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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