What is recorded here

Under the cabbage-soil of a Barrahaurin ringfort, a narrow stone chamber waited for boots and curiosity. When farming lifted its lintel roof in 1845, the hidden passage emerged with an ogham-marked stone that someone stole and sold for a pound. The entrances were later blocked, returning the chamber to darkness and depriving it of the witness it had briefly given the world.

In ringfort (CO050-045001-). Hartnett (1939, 177) recorded 'an underground passage disclosed by three openings the principal one of which is to the west. The side walls are stone-lined and narrow towards the top where they are roofed by transverse lintels. The entrances have been deliberately blocked with large stones'; now inaccessible. Discovered in 1845 when the ringfort was cultivated as a 'cabbage-garden' (Macalister 1945, 102); apparently a number of lintels were raised and 'laid on the rampart of the fort for subsequent disposal', however one bearing an ogham inscription (CO050-045003-) was carried off by night and sold to the antiquarian John Windele for £1 (ibid.). 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

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