What is recorded here

Underground chambers once lay beneath the western edge of a dismantled rath in Garryrickin, but their stone roofs have collapsed into an eleven-metre depression. They may have served as storage, refuge or ceremonial rooms within the triangular pasture now called Bawnacrusha. What is left is a shallow wound in the ground, holding the shape of rooms that human hands built and time has erased.

On level ground which falls gently from E-S-W and rises to the N. There are extensive views over a broad plain to the E and W. Within a large triangular pasture field called 'Bawnacrusha'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 318) describes the monument as, 'a partially dismantled rath, within which were discovered two stone-roofed apartments now destroyed', though he mistakenly assigns them to the adjacent Butlerswood townland. In the W quadrant of this ringfort (KK030-009001-) there is a linear E-W depression (L 11m; Wth 5m; D c. 1m) indicating the collapsed Man-made underground passage, which according to Carrigan (ibid.) had two chambers. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 July 2023

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.