What is recorded here
Closed now, but once a trench cut the northeast side of the ringfort, sloping toward Clashavoon stream like a mouth waiting for water or people. Coleman saw a collapsed passage in 1947; locals still point to the depression as if the ground remembered being hollow. Whatever went through it, the earth has taken it back.
In NE quadrant of ringfort (CO060-123001-). Coleman (1947, 71) noted a 'trench which looks like a collapsed Man-made underground passage'. Now closed up, but according to local information, depression leading SE from ringfort towards Clashavoon stream is associated with possible Man-made underground passage.
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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- What survives
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