What is recorded here
Knockaunbaun holds an L-shaped hollow twenty metres long and one metre deep, perhaps the collapsed remains of a man-made underground passage. The missing tunnel may have twisted through solid earth before falling inward, dragging its roof and walls into the dark. A person could have crawled through that hidden chamber, listening to water or breathing in dust, then vanished behind a wall that no longer stands.
In the W sector of the interior of a rath (GA116-066----). An L-shaped hollow (L c. 20m; Wth 2.5m; D 1m) may mark the site of a collapsed Man-made underground passage. One leg of the hollow runs N-S and the other extends off its SE side and runs E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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