What is recorded here

Fionn Mac Cumhaill allegedly fled a giant fight between Sheemore and Sheebeg to rest inside this passage, yet no cave remains today. The rock face keeps a narrow cleft and a steady spring instead, suggesting the earth swallowed the chamber or the story stretched a small seam into a royal bed. Whatever disappeared, the water still flows where the giant supposedly slept.

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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 April, 2017

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