What is recorded here
Gortdonaghmore holds a hidden passage inside its ringfort, now buried and absent from the surface. The loss is not misplacement but transformation: the dug way became soil, memory and story.
In ringfort (8341). According to local information, infilled Man-made underground passage in interior. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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