What is recorded here
Ten metres eight of black earth stretch north beneath the rath, wide enough for two people to walk shoulder to shoulder and deep enough to swallow a standing man. The dimensions suggest deliberate digging rather than animal damage, though no entrance, chamber or purpose has survived to explain the labour. Perhaps the passage led to water, a cache or a hidden room now collapsed; perhaps it was abandoned before it was finished. In either case, someone measured the dark, cut through solid ground and left a long empty tunnel waiting for a destination nobody remembers.
In the N sector of the interior of a rath (GA106-143----). A rectangular hollow (L 10.8m; Wth 3.3m; D 2.9m) may indicate the site of a possible Man-made underground passage.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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