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Man-made underground passage

Man-made underground passage

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Ten metres of drystone passage still lock inside the Galway rath, low enough to force a crawling entry and wide enough for one human body to push through darkness. Collapsed slabs at the eastern end suggest the route continued further, perhaps toward a second chamber hidden beside the main tunnel. The builders did not dig a temporary hole; they constructed a permanent underground address where breath, shadow and memory could still meet.
In the NW quadrant of a rath (GA103-142----). This inaccessible drystone-built Man-made underground passage consists of a passage (L >10m; Wth c. 1m; H 0.7m) running E-W. Some collapsed slabs indicate that it continued further to the E. There may have been a second chamber immediately to the N of the E end of the passage. (McCaffrey 1952, 199, no. 66) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2018

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