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Man-made underground passage

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Ballymaglancy Cave is a 726-metre underground river in County Galway where lesser horseshoe bats still fly through darkness that has never been fitted with lights or shelves for visitors. The Clancy or Glancy family gave the place its name centuries before surveyors drew its line, and Pollwalter marked the water that carved it. People may have followed that river when storms closed the fields, listening for bats rather than fearing them.
In the W sector of a rath (GA106-135----). This drystone-built Man-made underground passage (L >4.6m; max. Wth 1.2m; max. H 1.8m) is aligned E-W. Access is gained at its E end. A depression extending from this point to the E initially and then turning S suggests that it may have been L-shaped in plan. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

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