What is recorded here

The collapsed earth revealed two chambers in 1991, one built of stone and one cut from living soil, joined by a steep creeping tube. The stone room breathed through a shaft in its east wall while the deeper earth chamber waited in darkness beneath it. Someone shaped both spaces at different times, perhaps to store grain or hide people when storms broke the sky. The pasture above still holds the shape of that forgotten work, waiting for boots and lantern light.

In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Discovered in 1991 following collapse; investigated by Jane O'Shaughnessy, UCC. Two interconnecting chambers, constructed at different depths below ground level. Chamber 1: stone-built, rectangular (L 3.43m; Wth 1.3m; H 1.6m; long axis NNW-SSE); walls slightly corbelled to support lintels; entrance to ventilation shaft at floor level in E wall; lintelled entrance to stone-lined creepway (L 0.5m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) at S end. Chamber 2: earth-cut, oval-shaped (L 3m; Wth 1.5m; H 1.1m; long axis N-S); floor 0.7m below chamber 1; roof barrel-vaulted. Creepway has sharp downward incline because of difference in floor levels. Shallow fosse-like depression forming semi-circular arc immediately to W of Man-made underground passage could be remains of enclosing element; area site of early 19th-century settlement. 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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