What is recorded here

Yes. An underground passage in Kilmalooda, County Cork, holds three small chambers cut into gravel, with four sandstone slabs set into the south wall of the last chamber. Quarrying exposed the passage in November 1981, and collapse has since narrowed the spaces that someone deliberately dug beneath an early ecclesiastical enclosure. The chambers are barely tall enough for a crouching person, yet their clear shape and placed slabs suggest prayer, hiding, or ritual rather than ordinary storage.

In N quadrant early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO094-08001-). Discovered November 1981 during quarrying. Three chambers cut into gravel; considerable collapse had occurred in all chambers; Chamber 1: L 2.7m; Wth 1.2m; H 1.2m. Chamber 2: L 2.5m; Wth 1.4m; H 0.94m. Chamber 3: L 2.1m; Wth 1.9m; H 1m; (all measurements approximate). Four sandstone slabs set in S wall chamber 3. Passage to chamber 3 exposed in quarry face. (pers. comm. Dr. A. Lynch). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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