Man-made underground passage in Laharan (carbery West (w.d) By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre tall, barely wide enough to crawl, the passage cuts through living earth beneath a rath in Laharan. In 1999 local investigators pulled rubble from a narrow shaft and found a dome-shaped tunnel leading to a small chamber roofed by four lintels. Water seeped in as soon as the earth gave way, filling the space they had just opened. The chamber remains mostly buried, its purpose hidden beneath thirty centimetres of soil and silence.

In a rath (CO139-009----), off-centre to the N. In 1999 local non-archaeological investigations led to the discovery of a shaft (0.72m E-W; 0.43m N-S; D 1.3m) which was filled with rubble. When the rubble was removed the shaft was found to lead to an earth-cut dome-shaped passage (c. 2m NNW-SSE; 0.95m NNE-SSW; H 0.63m) which was dry when first exposed but which was waterlogged when inspected. A short creepway (Wth 0.61m) at the S end of the passage leads into a small subrectangular earth-cut chamber (L 1.8m; min. Wth 1m). The chamber is roofed by four lintels. The most southerly lintel is a large square slab (c. 1m by x c. 1m) while the other three are rectangular (Wth c. 0.2m). The chamber is filled with earth to within 0.3-0.4m of its roof, obscuring any further features. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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