What is recorded here

One chamber and a short passage still crouch beneath a levelled Cork ringfort, though a bulldozer destroyed the second passage in 1959. The surviving part is small enough to creep through, with stone walls rising from cut earth and slab roofs overhead. What is lost can still be measured in the shape of what remains: a narrow breathing hole under an old field, half buried and half remembered.

In levelled ringfort (CO060-151001-). Coleman (1945, 112-3), described an entrance in N portion of ringfort with 'series of hollows on a line curving SE and E apparently marking a sunken trench entrance to the actual mouth of the Man-made underground passage'. He noted 'debris slope' leading into passage (long axis N-S; L 10ft), upper levels of walls stone-built atop earth-cut base, roofed with slabs; earth-cut creephole (H 1ft 8in; Wth 1ft 7in) at N end. This leads to second passage similar to first (long axis N-S; L c. 6ft). Passage opens into stone-built elliptical chamber (max. H 4ft 3in; Wth 4ft; long axis NE-SW) roofed with slabs. Small lintelled creephole at NE end leads to circular earth-cut chamber (H 3ft 4in). McCarthy (1977, 198) noted that second passage was destroyed by bulldozer in May 1959. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.