What is recorded here

Seven metres north-west of Tomb 2, a narrow cut descends through drystone walls into a clay-floored passage that pierces the chamber itself. The step at the southern end suggests someone once knelt or crouched before entering, adjusting to the dark rather than stumbling blindly. Rounded stones and brown sand now choke the route, yet the deliberate walling and smooth floor prove the gap was made, not broken. Under Dowth Hall the dead did not merely rest; they were reached, entered and remembered through a hole cut into the world above.

Recorded by C. Ní Lionáin in excavating (17E0242) the passage tomb (ME020-098----) under Dowth Hall. About 7m NW of Tomb 2 a cut in the cairn material (dims 2.6m NNW-SSE; 1.5m ENE-WSW; D 0.48m) was lined on each side except the S with drystone walling which is the drop-down entry to a passage (L 2.05m plus; Wth 0.7m) that had been provided with a clay floor with a step at S before running into unexcavated ground. The passage was filled with rounded stones in a brown silty sand beneath a yellow brown silt. The Man-made underground passage extended into the chamber of tomb 2 and was responsible for the drystone walling on its N side (Ní Lionáin 2022). (Ní Lionáin 2021, 55) See the attached view of the passage at Tomb 2 looking NW by Ken Williams; Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 October 2022

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