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Alice and Gwendoline Cave

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Alice and Gwendoline Cave
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Alice and Gwendoline Cave is a limestone chamber beneath Edenvale House where a bear bone with butchery marks suggests humans lived in Ireland during the Upper Palaeolithic. The two young women who helped excavate it in 1902 gave their names to its passages, while thousands of animal bones and scattered human remains still fill its shadows. It is not a polished museum exhibit but a buried kitchen, refuge and graveyard, preserved under Clare soil.
Alice and Gwendoline Cave is recorded as a museum in County Clare. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Alice and Gwendoline Cave is a karst cave formed through the dissolution of limestone by acidic water over thousands of years. The cave's name may derive from local folklore or historical figures, though specific archaeological or cultural associations remain undocumented.

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