What is recorded here

No visible chamber, no standing wall, no chamber mouth at ground level. Only a hidden passage beneath Haggardstown, torn open by construction in September 2003 and destroyed before proper inspection. What was lost is not a whole building but the shape of the hole, the direction of the passage, and the small things that fell out of it. The chamber may have been a cellar, a cache, a ritual well or a forgotten room. The passage may have connected that chamber to another place now buried under roads and houses.

Discovered in September 2003 during construction work for a housing development. Destroyed prior to inspection by the NMS or NMI. Recorded by Micheál McKeown before destruction as a trapezoidal shaped passage (Wth at floor level c. 0.9m; Wth at roof level c. 0.4m, H 0.9m-1.1m) leading out of a beehive chamber (diam. c. 1.3m, H c. 1.6m). The passage ran initially in a northerly direction for c. 8m and then curved towards the NE and continued for c. 7.3m where it was blocked by collapsed soil and stone. A recess was noted on both the E and W wall c. midway along the passage and also on either side of the junction of the passage and chamber. Finds included a sherd of pottery and a piece of flint. (McKeown, CLAJ 2003, 271-4). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 May 2012

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