What is recorded here
Glanballyma is a man-made underground passage hidden inside a Kerry ringfort, recorded as a cave on an 1841 map but absent from the surface in 1985. The missing entrance may have been buried by soil, forgotten by livestock, or swallowed by the slope. The cave may still exist beneath the pasture, waiting for rain, root or curiosity to reveal it.
In pasture, on a S-facing slope. On the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map a ‘cave’, suggesting the presence of a Man-made underground passage, is depicted within the interior of a ringfort (KE022-015----) at W. No visible surface trace of the Man-made underground passage was evident when surveyed in 1985.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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