What is recorded here

Clear water drips through the broken roof of the first chamber, marking time in the dark. The cave holds three long rooms joined by low creepways, buried at the heart of a ringfort on an esker ridge. It is not a natural hole but a made space, built with large limestone blocks and flat lintels. People entered from above when the front entrance disappeared, walking into a hidden room that still smells of wet stone and age.

Large multi-chambered Man-made underground passage located in the centre of a large ringfort (OF006-029001-) situated on an E/W esker ridge in undulating countryside. Foot (1860-61, 222-9) describes three dry stone walled chambers constructed with large limestone blocks in a cyclopean fashion with flat lintelled roofs joined by creepways. Chamber 1: L 8.84m; Wth 1.67m; H 1.67m. Chamber 2: L 10m; Wth 1.82m; H 1.67m. Chamber 3: L 9.1m; Wth 1.82m; H 1.67m. Original entrance destroyed with access to Man-made underground passage from the open roof of chamber 1 (English 1972, 249). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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