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Man-made underground passage in Cooltymurraghy (clonmacnowen By.)

Man-made underground passage

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One chamber, two doors, no staircase: a man-made underground passage in Cooltymurraghy (clonmacnowen By.), cut into the north half of a ringfort. Its long room stretches east-west, then another opens northward and stops at the bank, making a hidden T beneath the grass. Perhaps people crawled through it when storms came, or kept what they did not wish lost.
In N half of a ringfort (GA099-071----). What is visible is a T-shaped hollow (L 10.6m), the main part of which (L 5m, Wth 1.8m) runs E-W. Approximately halfway along it, a second hollow (L 5.6m, Wth 1.6m) opens off its N side and follows a N-S axis before terminating just inside the ringfort bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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