What is recorded here

Under the western half of a Limerick ringfort, a narrow stone passage stretches twenty-two feet before fading into a sloped clay approach. Built low and tight, it forced anyone inside to bend beneath walls barely four feet high. Ó Ríordáin uncovered the structure during the 1930s, revealing how much of the fort’s life may have continued below ground rather than above it.

Man-made underground passage in W half of ringfort (LI048-034007-) excavated by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 128-132) between 1934-5. Excavation of the interior of Ringfort 10 uncovered the remains of a Man-made underground passage, described by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 128-9) as follows; ‘The length of the stone-built portion of the Man-made underground passage was 22 feet [6.7m], while the total length was 36 feet [11m] if we include the approach – a narrow area where the clay was sloped away from the end to the level of the floor of the structure. The walls were parallel, but not straight, and the distance between them slightly under 4 feet [1.2m], while the best portions were slightly over 4 feet [1.2m] in height'. See attached plans from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 26 August 2021

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