What is recorded here

Man-made underground passage in Finned (carbury By.) is a man-made underground passage in Finned (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland. Known in the early 19th century but lost until rediscovered in the early 21st century, it holds a stone-lined cavity about one metre deep beneath a collapsed roof. Drystone walling remains visible at the south-west edge, while the passage continues toward the north-north-west under loose soil.

In pasture, located on the brow of a low rise on an E-W ridge, which borders the N side of Drumcliff Bay. Ground falls away gradually for 150m to the stony shoreline. A Man-made underground passage in Finned townland was known about in the early 19th century when it was noted in the OS Name Books (OSNB Co. Sligo, vol. 1, 293), however, its exact location was not recorded, and it was, therefore, not listed in the RMP (1995). It was rediscovered in the early 21st century (pers. comm. Leo Leyden, 2019). A subcircular opening (max. dim. c. 1m) is visible at surface ground level. It opens into a stone-lined subterranean cavity (D c. 1m), part of a drystone-built chamber or passage. The surface opening is not an original entrance, but most likely resulted from the collapse of a roof lintel. The chamber/passage is now partly infilled with loose soil, and its original form is difficult to determine; drystone walling is evident at S-SW, possibly a side or end wall, and the chamber/passage appears to continue to NNW or N. Attached images: SL008-157----_01 Surface collapse/current opening to Man-made underground passage SL008-157----_02 Drystone chamber/passage, viewed from SE Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 February 2019

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