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Man-made underground passage in Clare

Man-made underground passage
Man-made underground passage in Clare
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Two lintels still bridge the north-eastern mouth of a blocked passage buried inside a Clare rath. The chamber ran northeast-southwest beneath the mound, likely built as a hiding place, treasury or ritual chamber for the people who lived there. Soil and forgetting have since closed it, leaving only a shallow dip and two stones to mark the hidden room beneath the grass.
In the centre of a rath (GA054-014----). A slight depression contains the remains of a blocked Man-made underground passage running NNE-SSW. Two lintels are visible at NNE end. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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