What is recorded here

Limestone Cave in County Waterford is gone, though its shadow remains. R.J. Ussher found animal bones and first-century artefacts inside, suggesting people lived there before the earth swallowed the entrance. The cave may have been a home, a shelter or a forgotten room in the hillside. Its loss does not erase the hands that shaped it or the lives that moved through it.

Located on the E-facing slope of a N-S escarpment. It is described as a small midden associated with a cave that was nvestigated by R.J. Ussher at the end of the 19th century when the bones of domesticated animals and artefacts of the first millenium AD were recovered. The cave is no longer visible. Is named 'Limsetone cave' on the latest OS 6-inch map. (Ussher 1885, 365; Moore 1999, no. 425) Revised by: Michael Moore, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 28 April 2014

The cave is situated in limestone, typical of karst landscapes, and likely formed through dissolution by acidic water over millennia. R.J. Ussher's 19th-century investigation uncovered a small midden containing bones of domesticated animals, suggesting limited human activity or habitation in the area.

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