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Cave

Man-made underground passage

What is recorded here

Ballymaglancy Cave cuts seven hundred metres through Carboniferous limestone west of Cong, preserving a dark chamber where lesser horseshoe bats still ride the air. The townland name points to the Clancy or Glancy family, while Pollwalter remembers a mill pond whose water may have fed the passage long before people measured it. Keeping the cave closed is not bureaucracy; it is the difference between a dead tunnel and a living roost.
Within the N sector of the interior of a possible rath (GA123-082----). No visible surface trace of the Man-made underground passage survives. A school was built to the SW and the school yard now overlies the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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