What is recorded here

Ballymaglancy Cave is a 726-metre underground river in County Galway where lesser horseshoe bats still fly through darkness. The townland name points to the Clancy or Glancy family, while Pollwalter suggests a mill pond beside the hidden water. People may have followed that river into rock long before roads or lights arrived, listening for its voice instead of mapping every chamber. The cave remains closed because the bats need that closure; human curiosity must stop at the entrance and let the underground life continue unbroken.

Within the SW quadrant of a possible rath (GA097-039----). Named 'Cave' on the 1838 edition of the OS -inch map. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 July 2019

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.