What is recorded here

That is a man-made underground passage in Cloonaghboy, County Mayo, Ireland. Local tradition holds the blocked entrance belongs to a cave, yet no clear chamber, tunnel or chamber is known. The visible depression measures about two metres across and sixty centimetres deep, with stones protruding around its top edge and a bush growing from it. A rath sits twenty metres upslope, suggesting the place may have served people who lived nearby.

In pasture, located at the base of a N-facing slope of a small ridge. There is a rath (MA062-059) located 20m upslope to SE. A semi-circular depression (max. dim. c. 2m E-W; D 0.6m) is cut into the base of the natural slope. Stones protrude from the sod around its top edge. According to local tradition, this is the blocked up entrance to a ‘cave’ or Man-made underground passage. A bush grows out of the depression. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

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