What is recorded here

Ballymaglancy Cave is a 726-metre underground river in County Galway where lesser horseshoe bats still fly through darkness that has never been fitted for tourists. The water cut the Carboniferous limestone into a long hidden chamber, and the family name preserved in the place may have marked the cave as familiar long before surveyors measured it. To enter now is to disturb a living roost, so the cave keeps its shape and rhythm away from human hands.

Close to the summit of a hill 180m NE of a rath (GA054-014----). Marked on 2nd (1899) ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Cave'. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.