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Kelly's Cave

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Kelly's Cave is a 16-metre limestone chamber in County Mayo where carved benches and a roof skylight suggest centuries of human occupation. Local story names a fugitive Kelly as its keeper, yet the shape and steps point to a hermitage or older shelter. The cave is small enough to walk through in minutes but large enough to hide a life, which is why it still feels like a room somebody lived in.
Kelly's Cave is recorded as a cave in County Mayo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Kelly's Cave is a karstic limestone cave formed through the dissolution of soluble rock, typical of the Burren geological region that extends into western County Mayo. There are no recorded archaeological finds or folklore associated with the cave in available sources.

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