What is recorded here

Christy's Cave in County Clare is a narrow twelve-metre limestone throat where human hands once stacked stones and ate limpets. The floor still holds dog and sheep bones alongside a small drystone wall, proving the dark was never empty. Whatever medieval date people guess, the cave remains a quiet kitchen where someone fed a dog and faced the sea.

This cave, known as Christy's Cave, is a small natural limestone cave that extends for 12m. The cave came to notice in 2013 with the discovery of a shell midden and small drystone wall located inside the entrance. Shells and bones exposed on the cave floor were examined and comprised limpet and bones of a dog, sheep and other mammals. There is no evidence to support the suggested medieval date proposed by Lavender-Duncan et al. (2013, 48) (pers. comm. Marion Dowd). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 May 2014

Cave in Poulnabrucky, also known as Christy's Cave, is a small natural limestone cave formed through the dissolution of soluble rock, typical of karst landscapes. In 2013, a shell midden and small drystone wall were discovered inside, indicating past human activity and possible Neolithic or Bronze Age use.

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