What is recorded here

Man-made underground passage in Rathrippin is a man-made underground passage in Rathrippin, County Sligo, Ireland. It lies inside a rath next to a disturbed northern bank section that spans about four metres from east to west. The main opening is a roughly circular unlined depression three point five metres across and sixty-five centimetres deep, while a second shallower depression measuring about three metres north-south and two point five metres east-west sits one and a half metres to the south-southwest. O'Rorke mentioned three caves within this rath in 1889, suggesting this passage may be one of them.

In a rath (SL026-027001-), adjacent to a disturbed slumped section (L c. 4m E-W) of the bank at N. A roughly circular unlined depression (diam. 3.5m; D 0.65m) with a second shallower depression (c. 3m N-S; 2.5m E-W; D 0.4m) 1.5m to SSW. Possibly one of the three 'caves' in the interior of the rath (see SL026-027003-; SL026-027004-) which were mentioned by O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 458). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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