This is well worth the short diversion off the Galway road. I was in the vicinity looking for Toorclogher megalithic tomb (again, without any luck, again) and pulled over to have a look at the modern christian cross. Just behind this is the souterrain entrance. What a pleasant surprise! It’s quite well preserved, the opening in the mound leading into a corbelled chamber. From there a tunnel leads down. Where that leads to is anyone’s guess, I hadn’t got the bottle, or a torch, to check.
So, a souterrain in a mound, that’s at one end of a hill in a parish called Seefin. Hmmm.
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Yeah, probably best that you didn't. You might not have made it back to write the fieldnotes. Not for a hundred years or something, anyway. No wonder it needs a bloody great cross over it.
100 years? Maybe the recession will be over by then. Hang on, I'll get me coat… and me torch.
A friend and I visited last August (2018) and made a full exploration. From the upper chamber, there is a crawl to another chamber from where there is a opening down to a tunnel, at the end of which is a hole up into another final chamber. I have some photos which I will add shortly.
Great, looking forward to them.