What is recorded here

Lackan holds a Z-shaped drystone chamber inside a rath, its narrow passages twisting east and north before opening into a low rectangular room. People crawled through that dark space in 1979 to test how such a chamber might have been built and used. The stones still fit tightly enough to suggest confident hands, while the hidden air vent hints that the chamber was meant to remain livable rather than simply sealed.

Within the SE quadrant of a rath (GA114-109----). This well-preserved drystone-built Man-made underground passage, which was the setting for an experimental archaeological project in 1979 (Fox 1980, 14-15), is roughly Z-shaped in plan. From the access point a passage extends to the E (L 5.56m) and to the N (L 9.7m; Wth 1.96m max.). The latter section leads to a chamber (L 6.55m; Wth 2.12m; H 1.6m ), running E-W, off its NW end. An air-vent is evident at the NE end of the passage. There is another Man-made underground passage (GA114-109002-) in the SW quadrant of the rath. (McCaffrey 1952, 285, no. 7) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1980). The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 627.

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