What is recorded here

That is the largest chamber in the local database. It is also the largest chamber in the regional database. The chamber is a man-made underground passage in Lisnamoltaun. The passage is six metres long and one metre wide. It cuts through the bank of an ancient ringfort. Netles fill the hole today. Large slabs mark both ends of the passage. The slabs may have closed the passage when people were not using it. People may have pulled the slabs aside and crawled through to the other side. They may have carried messages, goods or warnings through the hill. The chamber is large enough to hold every one of those possibilities.

In SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA086-192----). What is visible is a nettle-filled linear depression (L 6.6m, Wth 0.95m), up to 0.75m in depth, running ENE-WSW. Traces of stonework are visible intermittently along its sides and a large capstone-like slab delimits its ENE end. Just S of the latter, another slab is visible in a clump of overgrowth. The WSW end of the depression runs through a gap in the rath's bank. Some 4.3m W of it, outside the rath, is another large slab surrounded by a number of small stones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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