Man-made underground passage (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Under the north-east bank of a Cork ringfort, a man-made passage disappeared when men filled it with earth around 1919. Local memory also whispered of a second opening on the south-west side, suggesting the rampart once hid a complete underground route rather than a single hole. The earth swallowed the work, but the shape of the story remains: a place built to be entered, then denied to entry.

Under banks at NE side of ringfort (CO060-075002-). Hartnett (1939, 46), recorded site of Man-made underground passage, filled in c. 1919, 'inside the rampart to the north-east'; he was also informed locally of second opening 'inside the rampart to the southwest'. No visible surface trace. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO060-075004-) outside outer bank. 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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