What is recorded here

Black bog oak boards, six feet long and half a foot wide, once reinforced a square passage cutting through the Liscreagh ringfort. Men destroyed the tunnel in 1895 while cutting turf, erasing the only visible proof that the earth had hidden a deliberate route. The loss belongs to the age when ordinary labour treated ancient wonder as obstruction rather than memory.

In ringfort (8473). Broker (1937, 49) noted a 'passage going towards John P. Hickie's, 3 feet square boarded all round with black bog oak. Boards were 3 inches by 6 inches and were 6 feet long. Destroyed by turf cutting in 1895'. No visible surface trace. McCarthy (1977, 369) included this in his list of Man-made underground passages but added that it may also refer to 'a water mill or a fulacht fia'. 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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