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Man-made underground passage in Carrowreaghmony

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

Three large lintels still protrude through the earth southwest of the Carrowreaghmony ringfort, marking a blocked underground passage rather than an ordinary ditch or collapse. The chamber may have served the ringfort as a cellar, refuge or ceremonial hole, but soil and forgetting have closed its mouth. What remains is a stone threshold waiting for someone brave enough to listen through it.
In SW of ringfort (MA100-020----). Three large lintels protrude through the earth. Man-made underground passage blocked up and inaccessible at time of survey. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 508. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

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