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Man-made underground passage

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

Ten metres of curving rock led to a chamber wide enough for a dozen people to stand shoulder to shoulder, yet time has crushed that much grandeur into a shallow stone-filled depression. The passage likely breathed darkness for generations before forgetting its own shape. What remains is a quiet wound in the rath, deep enough to mark but no longer deep enough to enter.
Within the W half of the interior of a rath (GA104-228----). A marginal note in McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 58) describes the Man-made underground passage as 'a curving passage c. 33' [c. 10m]' that 'leads to a chamber c. 15' x 8' [c. 5m by 2.4m]'. All that survives is a small stone-filled depression. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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