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VI. Account of some subterranean Chambers discovered near Carrigtohill, County of Cork, and at Ballyhendon, near Fermoy in the same County: Communicated by Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., F.S.A., M.R.I.A., in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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When at Cork, in the early part of the present year, I was informed that some subterranean Chambers had been recently discovered on a farm named Garranes, in the parish of Carrigtohill, about nine miles east of that city.

By the kindness of Mr. Cummins, the proprietor of the ground, I was afforded an opportunity of examining these Chambers, in company with Mr. Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, whose pencil has so skilfully illustrated the picturesque antiquities of Ireland. They are situated within one of those circular entrenchments, popularly (but I am inclined to think incorrectly) termed “Danish Forts.” The diameter of this entrenchment is one hundred and twenty feet; and at the third of that space from the south side appeared a circular pit, about seven feet in depth, and measuring five feet and a half in diameter.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1831

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page 80 note a Plate X. Fig. 1.

page 80 note b Plate X. Fig. 2.

page 81 note c This conjecture in supported by the following passage in Tacitus, who describes a similar practice among the old Germans: “Solent et subterraneos specus aperire, eosque multo insuper fimo onerant, suffugium hiemi, et receptaculum frugibus, quia rigorem frigorum ejusmodi locis molliunt: et si quando hostis advenit, aperta populatur, abdita autem et defossa, aut ignorantur, aut eo ipso fallunt, quod quærenda sunt.” Cap. 16.