What is recorded here
You must crawl because the passage is only forty centimetres high. That small height turns a ordinary chamber into a test of patience and fear. The chamber is nearly five metres long and tall enough to sit, but the entrance refuses to let you stand. A person who entered it must have removed pride before understanding the shape of the place.
In ringfort (CO109-053001-). Oval, earth-cut chamber (L 4.7m; Wth 1.35m; H 1.3m) with stone-built passage (Wth 0.6m; H 0.4m) explored for 2.7m. Creepways in centre S wall chamber and at SE end passage (McCarthy 1977, 287-289). Ringfort levelled 1982; no visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 26/1976).
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
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