Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 52.99920, -9.14869
- SMR number
- CL009-059122-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This natural underground chamber (2.4m N-S; 1.6m E-W; max. H 2.6m) is a pipe or chimney of a larger cave system, in which the rock surface is covered in a white limestone slick (Self 1980, 181; Marion Dowd, pers. comm.). The floor is intentionally blocked with stone spill from a souterrain (CL009-059089-) which enters the chamber from the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 4 April 2022
References
Self, Charles A. (ed.), Caves of County Clare. Bristol, University of Bristol Spelaeological Society.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.