What is recorded here

Knockacullig South holds a buried passage beneath its ringfort, now collapsed and backfilled to keep people safe. The L-shaped depression and levelled bank suggest humans dug beneath the ground, then hid the hole again with earth taken from the fort itself. What happened below remains unknown, but the shape of the scar implies the passage was known, used, and deliberately closed.

Within the interior of ringfort (KE059-034----), off-centre to S. Sub-oval area (dims. c. 7.2m E-W; c. 8m N-S) defined by bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35m ext. H 0.75m) SE->W->NW; gap (Wth c. 0.75m) at NNW; bank (Wth 4.55m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.2m) levelled out N->SE. L-shaped depression (dims. c. 2.2m N-S; short return c. 2m to E; max. D 0.65m) off-centre to W. Probable collapse into a Man-made underground passage, which has subsequently been backfilled and material banked up around it for safety purposes; possible that material from the levelled ringfort bank NW->N->ESE was used in this process. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 November 2014

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