What is recorded here
That hidden chamber may have served as a cellar, a refuge or a temple, but its function has vanished with its roof. What remains is a shallow east-west scar in the earth beside the rath, waiting for someone brave enough to dig beneath the grass.
Within an annexe adjoining a rath (GA104-182----). Described by Knox and Redington (1916, 179-80) as a drystone-built Man-made underground passage (L >7.3m) consisting of a short passage connected at right angles, via a creep, to a rectangular chamber. Both ends of the chamber had partially collapsed. The Man-made underground passage is now inaccessible. It is indicated by a shallow depression (L 3m) running E-W. This was misplaced by McCaffrey (1952, 64-5, 238, no. 119) in the cashel (GA104-183----) c. 440m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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