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Man-made underground passage in Lisheens

Man-made underground passage

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In tillage, on level ground; discovered in 1976. McCarthy (1977, 286-7) recorded single sub-rectangular stone-built chamber (L 3.02m; Wth 1.35m; H1.22m; long axis N-S) roofed with lintels. N end collapsed; blocked creepway at S end framed by lintels and two jamb stones. No visible surface trace.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO073-057

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Brendandiamond, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Fensome, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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