Man-made underground passage in Cahersiveen — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cahersiveen, Ireland: Men building a railway station in 1892 broke through a hidden roof of lintelled stone and found a chambered passage with soot-stained drystone walls, ash, charcoal, oyster and periwinkle shells, and pieces of iron. They took rock from the Turret Field, filled the discovery back up, and left no mark behind. For a moment the ground gave up a small dark house that had kept fire, food and tools hidden beneath an ordinary field.

In 1892 a Man-made underground passage was discovered and apparently destroyed while rock was being quarried from the ‘Turret Field’, Cahersiveen, to make way for railway station buildings (Kerry Sentinel, 30/1/1892). The lintelled roof of the structure occurred ‘a few feet’ below the ground surface, and the Man-made underground passage consisted of a number of passages with side-walls of well-built drystone masonry. There were traces of soot on the walls, and oyster and periwinkle shells, ash, charcoal and ‘pieces of iron’ were found in it. It is not marked on the OS maps. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 855. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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