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Man-made underground passage in Drumnashinnagh

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

Drumnashinnagh holds a stone-lined depression south of its ringfort, perhaps the collapsed remains of a man-made underground passage. The stones still mark the shape of what disappeared beneath the soil. A person may have dug through solid earth to hide, escape or reach another field, then the ceiling fell and the opening vanished. Walk past the ringfort and imagine the dark tunnel waiting beneath the grass, unchanged since the last hand pulled stone into place.
In S of ringfort (MA100-051----). Stone-lined depression may be a partially collapsed Man-made underground passage. 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. 545. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

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