What is recorded here

Thirty-eight metres of drystone chambers twist beneath a Galway rath, forcing whoever built them to crawl through two narrow drop-holes before reaching the far rooms. The first chamber runs fifteen metres, but the path suddenly breaks into crawling space, as if the makers wanted to test whether the person inside still remembered how small human bodies are. The shape suggests a rath, yet the layout belongs to someone who understood fear, memory and the dark.

In the NW quadrant of a rath (GA113-145----). This very well-preserved drystone-built Man-made underground passage (L >38.3m) consists of four chambers connected by two drop-hole creeps. It is roughly E-shaped in plan and access is gained through a gap at the NNW end of the 1st chamber (L 15m; Wth 1.6m; H 1.5m), which runs NNW-SSE. At SSE this chamber curves to the E where a drop-hole creep (L 2.5m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.75m) accesses the 2nd and 3rd chambers. The 2nd chamber (L 6.1m; Wth 0.8m) extends off the NE end of the creep and runs N-S. At its S end the Man-made underground passage dog-legs towards the E and leads into the 3rd chamber (L 7.7m; Wth 1.7m; H 1.4m), which curves slightly and runs E-W. Another drop-hole creep (L 2.1m; Wth 0.75m; H 0.53m) at its E end leads to the 4th chamber (L 6.8m; Wth 1.6m; Wth 1.65m), which runs NNW-SSE. (McCaffrey 1952, 275, no. 1; Korff and O'Connell 1985) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

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