Discover Alone, back to main map

Man-made underground passage in Garraun Upper

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

No visible passage remains, but a hollow inside the Garraun Upper rath still suggests that people dug beneath the ground and left a space large enough to be remembered. Holt called it a collapsed man-made underground passage in 1912, and that judgement gives the hollow more life than ordinary earth. The rath keeps its shape while the digging has vanished, as if the underground room withdrew when stopped being watched.
Within the interior of a rath (GA095-047----). Holt (1912, 229) noted a hollow and suggested that it indicated a collapsed 'Man-made underground passage'. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places