What is recorded here

You must kneel, shrink and crawl through a narrow stone throat before the chamber opens. Built inside a Galway ringfort, the L-shaped passage forces the body to surrender pride before it grants entry. The first chamber stretches seven metres, but the second reaches eight before a hidden creep swallows the path again. People may have fled storms, buried treasure or simply played with darkness there, yet the stones still demand humility from anyone who enters.

In SW quadrant of ringfort (GA057-068----). An L-shaped drystone Man-made underground passage consisting of two chambers connected by a drop-hole creep. Access to the 1st chamber (L 7.35m, Wth 1.29m), which runs ESE-WNW, is gained via a small opening at ESE end. Grassed-over foundation stones visible to ESE of this point suggest that the chamber extended further in this direction. The drop-hole creep (L 2.4m, Wth 0.83 max. H 0.78m), running off SW wall, at WNW end, leads to the 2nd chamber (L 8.25m, Wth 1.61m) which runs NME-SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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