What is recorded here

Under the Muckross rath, a narrow lintelled throat forces a person to crawl before revealing a corbelled chamber built of roughly hewn limestone. The passage bends south-east, then west-south-west, past a slumped circular opening into an oval room where the stone work continues beyond sight. Whoever cut those joints understood darkness as a living partner, shaping rock not to display but to disappear.

In a rath (KE074-011----). A lintelled opening (Wth 0.5m) in the SE half of the rath leads into an inaccessible underground passage (Wth c. 0.5m; H 0.85m) extending 0.6m to the SE and then turning to the WSW for 2.6m. Here a slumped circular, opening (diam. 0.5m) reveals a corbelled passage (L 3m), with roughly hewn limestone lintels, which lead on to the WSW to an oval chamber (1.4m x 1.2m). From here the passage appears to continue to the WSW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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