What is recorded here

Faunarooska Cave is a 5,543 ft. long cave on the west side of Slieve Elva, Co. Clare, Ireland. It is the second deepest known cave in Ireland at 308 ft. and trends west rather than south. The name combines two Erse words, Fauna meaning slope or declivity and Rooska meaning marshy, which together describe the townland where the entrance lies. The cave was first explored by Balcombe, Bartlett and Sheppard in April 1936, but they had no tackle and did not descend the pitches until 1937. Pick went down the pitches in March 1937, and Balcombe and Bartlett completed the exploration a month later. They praised it as one of the finest caves in Ireland for its beauty, sporting nature and two exciting pitches. Later surveyors found it less charming. The entrances are notoriously hard to find and distinguish, and one caving group is said to have rediscovered the cave twice. In 1952 the R.A.F. Coli. Potholing Group, with Shaw, surveyed the wet and dry pitches and

The Irish Caves Database records Faunarooska Cave at Faunarooska in County Clare. 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.