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Man-made underground passage in Adamstown (moycashel By.)

Man-made underground passage
Man-made underground passage in Adamstown (moycashel By.)
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Man-made underground passage in Adamstown (moycashel By.) is a man-made underground passage in Adamstown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on the top of a gentle rise in gently undulating pasture, it offers extensive views to the east, south and southwest. Inside the bank in the northeast quadrant of a nearby ringfort, a roughly circular shallow depression with a maximum diameter of 3.8 metres has vague traces of a narrower depression extending to the southeast. These features may represent a collapsed passage.
Situated on the top of a gentle rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to E, S and SW. In NE quadrant of ringfort (WM025-129----) immediately inside the bank at NE, is a roughly circular-shaped, shallow depression (max. diam. 3.8m). It has vague traces of a narrower depression (max. Wth 2.5m) extending (approx. L 3m) from it, to SE. These may represent a collapsed Man-made underground passage Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 September 2019

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