What is recorded here

No visible trace remains on the surface, but local memory and past digging suggest hidden earth-cut chambers beneath the Mylane ringforts. The passage may have served as a cellar, refuge or ceremonial space, yet its exact shape and purpose have faded from sight. What is left is a ghost of architecture, preserved only in the accounts of those who broke the soil and found darkness waiting below.

In ringfort (8528). Hartnett (1939, 302), recorded from local information a 'cave' in S half of ringfort and noted several partly filled holes as evidence. No visible surface trace. Pitt-Rivers c. 1865 investigated earth-cut, unrevetted chambers in two ringforts in Mylane but it is not possible to determine which ringforts are referred to (Twohig 1987, 43-4). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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