What is recorded here
No underground passage exists in the Corbally rath. What looks like a tunnel is only quarry scarring, visible in aerial photos but absent from the ground itself. The boundary between memory and invention collapses when measurement stops and wonder takes over.
In a rath (MA092-060001-). Linear features visible in the rath interior in an aerial photograph (GSI M 98 –9; Roll 213, 26) were interpreted by the SMR as a possible Man-made underground passage (MA092-060002), however, these features appear to relate to the quarrying activity and there is no direct evidence for a Man-made underground passage in the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 May 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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