What is recorded here
Lissananny Cave is one of several newly documented chambers hidden beneath the Quaternary mantle of County Roscommon, a region where abundant limestone was long mistaken for ordinary soil. The cave joins a sudden expansion of known chambers in an inland county previously dismissed as cave-poor, revealing that water and time continued carving conduits while humans looked elsewhere. Its discovery corrects a regional blind spot and reminds us that much of the midlands still holds unseen rooms, waiting for someone to stop assuming the ground is empty.
The Irish Caves Database records Lissananny Cave at Lissananny in County Roscommon. This point comes from its public cave register. A cave map point does not by itself grant access: check local conditions and ask the landowner where needed.
The cave register does not grant public access. Check conditions and ask the landowner before entering private land.
Places near here
Embanked enclosureFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 424 yd
Tober CaelainnHoly well · 1.3 mi
Castlereagh HouseCastle, unclassified · 2.2 mi
Silver IslandIslet · 2.6 mi
Druminagh WoodForest · 2.6 mi
Fairymount HillMountain / peak · 2.9 mi
TowerCastle, tower house · 3.9 mi
Coolougher WoodForest · 4.5 mi