What is recorded here

Cave is a man-made underground passage in Carrownloughan, County Sligo, Ireland. It cuts through the western bank of a rath and enters a separate hut site to the southeast. A stone-lined opening measures 0.7m wide and 0.55m high at the outer slope, while a second opening on the inner hut bank is partly blocked by a collapsed lintel. A 2.5m wide depression along that inner bank may mark a collapsed chamber.

In the W half of a rath (SL025-095001-). A stone-lined lintelled opening (Wth 0.7m; H 0.55m), at the base of the external slope of the bank at WNW, reveals a stone-lined lintelled passage extending through the bank in a SE direction and into the interior of a hut site (SL025-095003-). A second opening, partially blocked by a collapsed lintel, is evident in the internal face of the enclosing bank of the hut site at SW. A depression (Wth 2.5m) which follows the internal face of the bank of the hut site SW-NE may be a collapsed Man-made underground passage chamber. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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