What is recorded here
Crooha West contains a man-made underground passage inside a ringfort, hidden beneath the ground with no visible surface trace. The passage may have served as a shelter, storage space, or secret route for the people who built the ringfort. Its absence from modern sight does not reduce its purpose; it simply moved the story below the soil, where human hands still shape the dark.
In ringfort (CO116-015001-) (O'Shea and Crowley 1972, 16). No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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