What is recorded here

Nine metres of narrow stone tunnel still lie buried beside Crumlin Church, bending west beneath a rocky terrace that faces the Aran Islands. The passage is so low a person must crawl through a cramped opening before entering the main chamber, suggesting it was built for secrecy, storage or escape rather than proud display. Its exact purpose has vanished, but the deliberate shape and preserved joints prove human hands carved the earth when the coast still demanded cleverness.

Revised Summary On a narrow, well-sheltered terrace at the N-foot of a steeply rising, rocky, terraced slope, overlooking the sea and the Aran Islands to the W and c. 30m to the W of ‘Crumlin Church’ (CL004-028001-). Referred to by Cunningham (1980, 24) as ‘across the lane’ from ‘Crumlin Church’ ‘in an overgrown field’. A well-preserved, L-shaped structure which is now accessed through a hole in the roof of a small, conical chamber (diams. 2.75m N-S; 2.6m E-W) the floor of which is covered in rubble. A narrow, rectangular creep (H 0.6m; Wth 0.45m) gives access from the chamber to a low, narrow passage (H 0.9m; Wth 0.85m) which runs in a SSE direction (L 9.5m), to where there is a build-up of earth on the floor, and then turns towards the W (L 4.1m). See attached images: • CL004-028002-_1 View of creep giving access from chamber to passage running ESE. • CL004-028002-_2 Looking WNW along the passage. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 10 November 2022

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