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Man-made underground passage in Dunmaurice

Man-made underground passage
Man-made underground passage in Dunmaurice
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No stone remains to mark the entrance, only a rectangular wound eight and a half metres long cutting through the southern bank of the rath on the drumlin summit. The missing passage may have served as a hidden escape route or a storage space for grain during storms, but time and ploughs have erased its walls. What is left is a shadow in the earth, a gap where human ingenuity disappeared, waiting for someone to imagine the dark it once held.
Situated on the summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. A rectangular depression (dims 8.5m N-S; 2.9m E-W; max. D 1.35m) extending N-S through the bank of rath (MO019-022----) at S with a spur (dims 4.5m x 3.5m) inside the bank on the W side could be a destroyed Man-made underground passage although there is no stone present. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 June, 2018

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