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Man-made underground passage in Pigotstown

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

No visible stones remain, only a shadowed hollow and a branching spur cut into the knoll beside the rath. The passage is ten metres long with a nine-metre arm, shallow enough for a person to crawl through but wide enough to swallow a lantern’s light. It may have been a hiding place, a ritual route or a forgotten way of moving through the land before roads existed.
Situated within woodland on a knoll in a low-lying landscape and in the NE quadrant of rath (ME015-095----). It is evident as a hollow (dims 10.8m NW-SE; 4.9m NE-SW; D c. 1m) with a spur (dims 9m NE-SW; 4.9m NW-SE; D c. 1m) to the NE from its NW end, but no stones are visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2019

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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