What is recorded here
Ballymaglancy Cave cuts seven hundred metres through Carboniferous limestone west of Cong, keeping a dark chamber for lesser horseshoe bats rather than people. The townland name points to the Clancy or Glancy family, while Pollwalter suggests a mill pond beside the underground passage. That is a cave built by water, named by neighbours, and still judged by the quiet life it protects.
Named 'Cave' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA098-106----). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 March 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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