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Man-made underground passage in Gortnadrass

Man-made underground passage

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Man-made underground passage in Gortnadrass is a man-made underground passage in Gortnadrass, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the east half inside a rath. A narrow channel two metres wide and sixty centimetres deep stretches seven metres from west to east before bending north for three metres. Rushes grow at the base of the depression.
In the E half of the interior of a rath (SL032-017001-). A linear depression (Wth 2m; D 0.6m) extends for 7m on an E-W axis, turning N for 3m at the E end. Rushes grow at the base of the depression. 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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