What is recorded here

Man-made underground passage in Cloonydiveen is a man-made underground passage in Cloonydiveen, County Sligo, Ireland. The subrectangular chamber measures 2.6 metres from southwest to northeast and 2.1 metres from northwest to southeast, with rounded corners and corbelled walls. Its lintelled roof has collapsed, and a 0.65 metre wide creepway with a collapsed lintel opens in the southwest wall. People found the passage in 1985 after levelling the rath on whose north edge it sits.

On the N edge of a levelled rath (SL037-003001-). A subrectangular stone-built chamber (2.6m SW-NE; 2.1m NW-SE) with rounded corners and corbelled walls and a collapsed lintelled roof. There is a creepway (Wth c. 0.65m) in the SW wall with a collapsed lintel. This Man-made underground passage was discovered in 1985 following the levelling of the rath (SMR (1989) file). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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