What is recorded here
Cave is a four-metre stone-filled hollow beside Eyrecourt House, named on an 1838 map but still without a visible entrance. It may be a abandoned passage, a natural cave or only a hole the land made for forgetting. A second cave-like place lies seventy-five metres away, as if the ground were learning to speak in holes.
Circa 120m to the NE of Eyrecourt House (GA108-086001-). Named ‘Cave’ in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. All that is evident is a small circular stone-filled depression (diam. 4m). It was not possible to determine whether this is the remains a possible Man-made underground passage or a natural cave. Another possible Man-made underground passage (GA108-084----) lies c. 75m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 October 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Eyrecourt Castlecountry house · 145 yd
Wall monument in Eyrecourt DemesneWall monument · 554 yd
Enclosure in Abbeyland GreatEnclosure · 1219 yd
Redmond HillMountain / peak · 1.7 mi
CastleCastle, unclassified · 2.4 mi
MeelickVisitor information · 2.6 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 2.6 mi
Killeen's IslandIsland · 2.6 mi
Friars IslandIsland · 2.8 mi
Silver FirSilver Fir · 3.1 mi