ANCIENT UNDERGROUND HOUSE
FIND BY IRISH FARMER While Mr. William Mcliroy, of Holestone, County Antrim, was removing a stone to widen the entrance to one of his fields, he discovered that it formed the entrance to a suterrain or underground dwelling. It was found that the dwelling consists of two chambers at right angles to each other, with a passage leading to a third, or possibly more chambers. This passage is blocked, and until it has been excavated the extent of the souterrain cannot be estimated. The floors of the chambers unearthed are about, seven feet below the surface of the ground. It is believed these underground dwellings were constructed by the aboriginal inhabitants as places of refuge at the time of the Celtic invasion of Ireland about the fourth ceuturv A.D.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280410.2.129
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 13
Word Count
132ANCIENT UNDERGROUND HOUSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 13
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in