What is recorded here

You must stumble twice into darkness before the rock opens into a beehive chamber, a strange reward for patience. The first passage drops you into the second, the second drops you into the third, and only then does the underground room appear, round and higher than the narrow tunnels that led to it. Someone built a game for the body, not a simple hole for storage. In Dunbin Little, depth became a ladder, and the chamber waited at the end like a room finally given up.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Souterrain consisting of a passage (L c. 4m, Wth 1.2m, H 1m) running N-S with a drop-hole at the N end giving access to a second passage (L c. 5m, Wth 1.2m, H 1m) continuing N. At the N end of the second passage is a second drop-hole giving access to a third passage running W (3.5m) then N (3m) and terminating in a beehive chamber (diam. 3m, H 1.5m). (CLAJ 1932, 497-9)

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