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Man-made underground passage in Moanmore

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

No visible stones remain, yet the L-shaped depression inside the western half of the Moanmore rath still measures ten metres long and six metres wide, suggesting a buried passage rather than a random hole. People may have cut through living rock, dragged soil away and sealed the entrance with earth, then forgotten the address of their own work. The rath kept the shape of the absence, waiting for someone curious enough to listen for the missing room.
Within the W half of a rath (GA105-159----). An L-shaped depression may mark the site of a collapsed Man-made underground passage. The long axis (L 10m) runs N-S and the short axis (L 6m; Wth 1.6m; D 1m) extends off its SE end and runs E-W. No stonework is visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2018

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