What is recorded here
Under the levelled ringfort at Dawstown, a stone-lined passage waits in darkness. Local memory preserves the shape, but the ground above offers no entrance, no marker, no warning. The passage may still hold its own air and shadow, hidden beneath ordinary soil.
In levelled ringfort (8242). According to local information, there is an underground passage lined with stones. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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