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 avoided human spectacle. It belongs to theClancy or Glancy family in its Irish name, and that ownership lives on in the land rather than in a gate or ticket window. The cave is not a display; it is a working habitat, protected because it remains closed to most people and open to the bats.

Within the W sector of the interior of a rath (GA097-134001-). Named 'Cave' on the 1838 and 1933 editions of OS 6-inch map. Apart from a shallow nettle-filled hollow and one possible roof lintel, no visible surface trace survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 166, no. 14) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2018

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