Man-made underground passage in Corbally (duhallow By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Two holes, each 12 feet wide and 6 feet deep, are cut through the northern and southern ramparts of the Corbally ringfort. Bowman called them man-made underground passages in 1934, but they may have been lime kilns or ordinary digging. The hole at the north interior junction still touches the bank like a forgotten door. Whatever they were, they show the fort was not a static monument but a working place where people cut, burned or moved earth.

In ringfort (CO023-032---). Bowman (1934, 416) noted 'in the northern and southern parts of the rampart, are two holes, 12ft wide at the top and 6ft deep. These were evidently Man-made underground passages'. Hollow cut into junction of interior with bank to N, may be one of these holes. Two other hollows excavated into external face of bank to S and NNE may be remains of lime kilns. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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