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Image of Seefin (Souterrain) by ryaner

The upper chamber. The roof of this regularly withstands the weight of cattle, barely a metre above.

Image credit: ryaner
Image of Seefin (Souterrain) by ryaner

Inside the upper chamber. The tunnel can clearly be seen to the left. Courage to go down there deserted me.

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Seefin

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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