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Cave in Coolnanav

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Two caves are marked close together on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, situated c. 50m from the SW bank of the NW-SE River Douglas, and adjacent to a parallel mill-race. Smith (1746, 329-30) descibes finding a human scull in one of these caves called Uaimh na mort - the cave of the dead. Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA030-084

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