Subterraneous Passage, cave in County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of the main Sheebeg Hill. A feature is described as a ‘Subterraneous Passage’ on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Local folklore as recorded in the Schools’ Manuscripts relates how after a fight with another giant in the area between Sheemore and Sheebeg Fionn Mac Cumhaill retired to a cave where he still rests. See this web-page accessed on 06/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649691/4647714 There is no cave in evidence now. Instead there is a cleft in rock outcrop with a natural spring.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE028-014

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