What is recorded here
West of the visible mound inside the Tawin West rath, a hidden chamber waited beneath a second mound of earth and stone. People built that passage deliberately, then buried its entrance rather than decorate it. The chamber no longer answers knocks, yet it still shapes the field because human hands once bent the land around secret depth.
Within the rath (GA102-038----). According to Holt (1912, 227) there was another mound to the W of the mound of earth and stone which is visible in the interior. It apparently masked the entrance to a Man-made underground passage. No visible surface trace of it survives and no trace of the Man-made underground passage was noted.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
LisheenFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1 yd
Tawin IslandIsland · 710 yd
Enclosure in Tawin WestEnclosure · 790 yd
Glasheen IslandIslet · 1.2 mi
bridgebridge · 1.3 mi
Ardfry PointHeadland · 1.6 mi
Ballyloughane BeachBeach / strand · 3.6 mi