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Man-made underground passage in Cooracurkia

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

That is the place in Cooracurkia. It is a shallow D-shaped depression, roughly centrally located inside a possible rath. Local belief calls it the blocked entrance to a cave, suggesting people once cut or cleared a passage beneath the mound. The chamber may have stored grain, hidden people or simply let the owner escape rain and heat. Whatever it did, the earth closed the mouth while the purpose faded from memory.
Roughly centrally located in the interior of a possible rath (GA098-080----). A shallow D-shaped depression (L 4.3m; Wth 3.5m) is locally believed to be the blocked-up entrance to a 'cave' (possible Man-made underground passage). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 February 2019

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