
What is recorded here
Ballymaglancy Cave is a 726-metre limestone tunnel near Cong where lesser horseshoe bats still fly through darkness that human hands have not fitted for display. Its name preserves the Clancy or Glancy family townland, while Pollwalter remembers a mill pond beside the entrance. The cave is not a spectacle for tourists; it is a living chamber where protected bats hunt, rest and continue an old rhythm beneath Galway soil.
Within the interior of a rath (GA125-031----). Named 'Cave' on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map, no visible surface trace of this possible Man-made underground passage survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
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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