What is recorded here
Knockbrack holds a stone-lined passage beneath the eastern of two conjoined raths, waiting behind a large boulder near the centre. The tunnel runs northwest to southeast through solid earth, inviting wonder about the people who cut it and the lives they led below the familiar surface.
In a rath (KE038-033----), the most easterly of a pair of conjoined raths (see KE038-033002-). The Man-made underground passage is visible through an opening, which is covered by a large boulder, near the centre of the levelled rath. It is stone-lined and appears to extend in a roughly NW-SE direction.
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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