
The road is just in front of the cross.
The road is just in front of the cross.
The upper chamber. The roof of this regularly withstands the weight of cattle, barely a metre above.
Inside the upper chamber. The tunnel can clearly be seen to the left. Courage to go down there deserted me.
The upper chamber entrance
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.