What is recorded here
Known as ‘Maze Hole’ or ‘Ailwee Upper Cave’ this cave has seven entrances located in the highest and largest of the closed depressions on Ailwee Mountain (Drew 1981, 172; Mullan 2003, 179), E of Ailwee show-cave. The passages (L 140m; typical H 1.5m; typical Wth 1.5m) are partially filled with clay and boulders and the walls are covered in soft white flowstone (Mullan 2003, 179). Seashells are visible embedded in the cave sediment (David Drew pers. comm.). The shells are likely to have been brought through human agency, but the date of this activity is unknown (Marion Dowd pers. comm.).
Known as ‘Maze Hole’ or ‘Ailwee Upper Cave’ this cave has seven entrances located in the highest and largest of the closed depressions on Ailwee Mountain (Drew 1981, 172; Mullan 2003, 179), E of Ailwee show-cave. The passages (L 140m; typical H 1.5m; typical Wth 1.5m) are partially filled with clay and boulders and the walls are covered in soft white flowstone (Mullan 2003, 179). Seashells are visible embedded in…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL006-147
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- MarvinVells, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Nils E., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Matthew Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- AndyCorbley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- PaulT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- laura ammons, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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