What is recorded here

Mullagheep holds a fifteen-metre underground passage built with drystone walls and a lintel roof, running east-west beneath fair pasture at the base of a steep slope. Kinahan wrote that fire traces and broken elk bones appeared inside, suggesting people used the dark tube for heat, hunt or ritual before vegetation swallowed most of it. What remains visible through surface openings is a stubborn fragment of human ingenuity, still warm to the imagination despite its depth and age.

Although inaccessible for the most part, a 15m stretch of Man-made underground passage with drystone walls and a lintel roof can be traced running E-W in a number of surface open-ings. Kinahan (1889, 286) recorded that traces of fires and 'the broken bones of Irish elk' had been found here. The site, which is partly overgrown, is located at the base of a steep SE-facing slope in an area of fair pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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