What is recorded here
Man-made underground passage in Gortnadrass is a man-made underground passage in Gortnadrass, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the south half of a rath and forms an eight-metre-long, two-metre-wide, forty-centimetre-deep north-south passage that widens into a chamber at the south end. That chamber measures five metres north-south and four metres east-west, appearing as a roughly rectangular depression one metre deep.
In the S half of a rath (SL032-014001-). A passage is evident as a linear depression (L 8m; Wth 2m; D 0.4m) aligned N-S, expanding out into a chamber (5m N-S; 4m E-W) at the S end. The chamber is evident as a roughly rectangular depression (D 1m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
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