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Man-made underground passage in Knockanaddoge

Man-made underground passage

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Knockanaddoge holds a collapsed underground passage inside an ancient ringfort, with two hollows on the south side marking where the roof fell. Carrigan wrote in 1905 that a passage leading west was discovered not many years before, suggesting people once cut or dug a route through the living rock. The passage may have served the fort as a hidden escape, a storage place, or a way to move through rain and danger without exposing itself. Whatever it was, the earth took it back, leaving only shallow hollows and a story buried beneath grassland.
On the E slopes of Deen valley and to the N of the upper Dinin valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views except to E where it is limited by rising ground. Within the interior of a ringfort (KK010-026001-) there are two hollows on the S side which may be indicating a collapsed Man-made underground passage as according to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 163), ‘A passage leading from it to the west was discovered not many years ago’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 November 2018

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