What is recorded here

Knockaneacoolteen holds a narrow drystone passage inside a rath, bending from a low crawl into a small circular chamber roofed by one large stone. The buildup suits deliberate human hands, yet the NNE end shuts against solid walling rather than opening elsewhere. Someone may have crawled through darkness to face a dead end, perhaps marking a boundary or hiding something small. The chamber still stands as a quiet box beneath the earth, waiting for breath and memory to return.

In a rath (KE039-088----). A possible Man-made underground passage entrance (L 1.3m; Wth 1m) is in the SE quadrant of the rath, 21.6m inside the inner bank. The opening leads into a drystone-walled passage (L 4m; Wth 0.9m; H 0.75m increasing to 1.2m at the SSW end; long axis NNE-SSW). At the NNE end, the passage appears to terminate in drystone walling. The passage is roofed with three lintels. At the SSW end, the passage curves WSW and leads into a creepway (H 0.27m; Wth 0.34m). The walls of the creepway consist of two large sandstone blocks and they are roofed by a large stone. The creepway is slightly corbelled. It leads into a small circular corbelled chamber (diam. 1.7m NE-SW; 1.65m WNW-ESE; H c. 1.85m) roofed by a large stone. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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