What is recorded here

A collapsed roof-stone opened a circular dry-stone shaft in Ardanreagh, revealing a buried chamber that may have served a forgotten passage or hidden local life. It sits beside older marked earthworks on flat reclaimed grassland, suggesting the field still holds layers of human use beneath its ordinary surface.

Situated on flat reclaimed grassland with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI032-118----) 67m to NW, moated site (LI032-190----) 150m to S. The opening of a small hole in the field caused by the collapse of a roof-stone, exposed the remains of a subterranean circular-shaped shaft (D 1.8m X 0.9m diam.) with dry-stone walled sides which appears to have had a stone corbelled roof. This feature was inspected and filled in after the site visit by the landowner in order to prevent further collapse. The function of the dry-stone walled structure is unclear. The presence of a corbelled roof and rough facing of the stone wall would argue against the classification of a well. The other possibility was that the structure could have been a small chamber at the end of a Man-made underground passage passage although no evidence of a passage was visible. The presence of the collapsed top-spoil and roof-slab made it impossible to inspect the original floor level of the structure. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Sarah McCutcheon Date of upload: 25 October 2022

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