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Man-made underground passage in Doogary (costello By.)

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

Doogary holds a collapsed underground passage beneath a rath, its L-shaped shadow stretching nineteen metres through grass and soil. Stones still protrude along the buried route, marking the angle where the pass turned inward. The structure may have served the rath as a hidden way, a storage trench or a passage for people moving through darkness. Whatever it was, the earth has swallowed the chamber and left only a narrow groove for memory to follow.
Located in the NE quadrant of a rath (MA081-007001-). An L-shaped depression (Wth 2.8m; D 0.5m) extends NNW–SSE for 9m along the NNE edge of the rath platform. At its SSE end it takes a right angled turn to SSW, narrowing slightly (Wth1.8m) as it extends for 8m through the rath interior. Stones protrude randomly from the sod along the length of the depression. It may be a collapsed Man-made underground passage passage. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021

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