Cave in Newquay, passage in County Clare

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What is recorded here

On good pastureland, near the top of a low but moderately steep NE-facing slope within a ringfort (CL005-004----). The ringfort is hachured and named ‘Lissavorneen’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios an Boirnín on Robinson’s map (1977). The Man-made underground passage is not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but is indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1915 ed. A square depression (1m x 1m; D 0.7m) with some drystone walling on its S side is visible in the SW sector of the ringfort.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL003-004002

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Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Michael Dibb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
A McCarron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert Bone, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Luisteix, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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