What is recorded here

Dunblaney preserves a Z-shaped underground passage inside its ringfort, still marking the southern half with a flat-bottomed hollow nearly twenty metres long. Sharp eastern and southern turns suggest a deliberate route rather than a random collapse, while broken lintels and faint drystone walls hint that people once walked beneath the ground. The shape resists easy explanation, but it refuses to disappear.

In S half of a ringfort (GA030-057----). Neary (1914, 115, no. 102) records that 'the garth ... contains Man-made underground passage'. What is visible is an Z-shaped flat-bottomed hollow (L 19.6m, Wth 2.2m) up to 0.7m in depth. Beginning just S of centre, it runs S (L 5m) and then turns sharply to E to take up an E-W axis (L 7m). It then turns sharply to S again, continuing on a N-S axis (L 7.6m). Traces of drystone-walling are visible intermittently along its course and a number of collapsed roof lintels. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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