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One chamber, no larger than a bedroom, stands blocked at the throat of a larger hidden system. The white limestone walls gleam like wet bone, and the artificial passage entering from the north suggests human hands shaped what the earth had already made.
This natural underground chamber (2.4m N-S; 1.6m E-W; max. H 2.6m) is a pipe or chimney of a larger cave system, in which the rock surface is covered in a white limestone slick (Self 1980, 181; Marion Dowd, pers. comm.). The floor is intentionally blocked with stone spill from a Man-made underground passage (CL009-059089-) which enters the chamber from the N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 April 2022
Ballyganner South Cave is a small chamber formed as a vertical pipe or chimney within a larger karst system, typical of limestone geology in the region. The white limestone slick coating the rock suggests past water flow and chemical deposition processes.

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