What is recorded here

Cave is a man-made underground passage built against a natural rock tunnel at the sheltered southern foot of a low ridge in County Clare. It appears on the 1915 OS 6-inch map and remains a marked local anomaly beside improved pasture. A massive lintel roofs one end, collapsed drystone walls extend westward, and a burial ground lies nearby. The cave may have been enlarged, hidden or used as a threshold between human life and the rock itself.

In scrub at the edge of improved and extensively cleared pasture at the sheltered S foot of a low ridge which rises up to W and N. Indicated and named ‘Cave’ on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and indicated as a Man-made underground passage on Robinson’s map ([1977] 1999). A Man-made underground passage has been constructed against the entrance to a natural cave passage (traceable L 3.1m; Wth 0.9m; H at mouth 0.7m; H at back 0.5m) in a low bedrock terrace. A massive lintel roofs the W end while to its E the roof is natural bedrock. Collapsed drystone walls extend W from cave mouth suggesting it may have run further in this direction or that a building shielded its entrance. A small drystone-built animal shelter (L 7.5m N–S; 6m E-W) roofed with galvanise stands on the bedrock terrace above the cave. The site of a burial ground (CL006-053001-) is located c. 50m NW. A number of bones were removed from the cave, some of which were identified as human, and all were subsequently returned to where they had originally been found (Marion Dowd, pers. comm. 2013). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 July 2021

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