Cave in Ballyshea, passage in County Galway

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What is recorded here

Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-065----). McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) refers to the presence of a Man-made underground passage. It was subsequently robbed out and an L-shaped depression (L>17.5m) running NNE-SSW for 11m and E-W for 6.5m marks its site.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA104-065001

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