What is recorded here

Six feet wide and fourteen feet nine inches long, the buried chamber held enormous quantities of bone, teeth and charcoal when Caulfield described it in the 1840s. McCarthy found four closed entrances around the Tullymurrihy ringfort in 1976, but the passage itself refused entry. People may have crept through that dark tube to hide, worship or discard what they no longer wanted to carry.

In ringfort (CO122-026001-). Described initially by Caulfield (1847-50, 387-8) as 'cavity (diam. '6 feet') with two circular ends connected by rectangular passage ('14 feet, 9 inches long')'. Cavity contained 'enormous quantities of bone, teeth and charcoal'. Investigated by McCarthy (1977, 319-320) in 1976; chamber inaccessible. He noted four closed-up entrances at centre, W, S and N of ringfort; N entrance was a low earth-cut creepway surrounded by oval, embanked area. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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