What is recorded here

Toorboney holds a man-made underground passage inside a ringfort, where a shallow western depression hints that a chamber collapsed long before anyone wrote it down. The passage may have served the fort as a hidden route, a storage hole, or a place for people to disappear when danger came. What is certain is that humans dug beneath an already defensible place, and what is missing is the chamber itself.

In ringfort (8604). Shallow depression just W of centre may indicate possible collapsed chamber. 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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