
What is recorded here
Yes. An underground chamber collapsed inside a ringfort in Condonstown North, leaving a shallow depression that still marks the hidden void. Power wrote about the passage in 1917, tying it to Lord Barrymore's farm and reminding that the ground there has swallowed human work before. The earth keeps its secrets, but it never erases them completely.
In SE quadrant of ringfort (CO053-009---). Depression (1.3m N-S; 0.4m E-W; D 0.2m) may indicate collapsed Man-made underground passage chamber. This is possibly the Man-made underground passage mentioned by Power (1917, 180) in 'lios on Lord Barrymore's farm'
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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