What is recorded here
That is the largest chamber known. No exit is recorded. The chamber may have been a temple, a treasury, a workshop, a prison or a chamber for the dead. The chamber is the largest known chamber, but the function is not known. The size and the concealment suggest that the people who built it wanted to control entry. They may have measured breath, stored things, excluded witnesses or marked the boundary between the living and the dead.
In a rath (MA014-083----). In 1995 a possible blocked-up Man-made underground passage was noted close to the enclosing bank in the SE quadrant of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 February 2015
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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