

88 The Irish Natiualist. April, 19 lo. 



(lone at the time as I did not know what it was. The plant was growinj^ 

 in fair abundance in a meadow by the River Deel, above Askeaton, Co. 

 Limerick, on the west side of the river, about a quarter of a mile above 

 the town and beyond the Carbide Works. The locality is in the barony 

 of Shanid, and there is no question of the plant being native. 



Rev. E- F. Liutou has seen the plant, and agrees with Mr. Marshall, 

 and the latter says the Irish plant is the ioxn\ platyptcnis Fr., the rarest 

 of the three forms which the species assumes, as given in the last 

 edition of the "London Catalogue." 



Saiutfield. 



C. H. WADDEI.L. 



GEOLOGY. 

 The Cloyne Cave. 



In the article on the above subject which lately appeared {supra, pp. 

 44-5), Dr, Hyde Maberl}' mentions that the only reference to the Cave 

 which he has couie across is contained in Smith's History of Cork. I 

 may state that an article dealing with the exploration of portion of this 

 cave as well as the neighbouring caverns of Carrigacrump, by Mr. K. 

 C. Rouayue, B.L., and myself in October 1908, appeared in the June 

 number, 1909, oiW\^ lournal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological 

 Societ}-. 



We entered the cave at the main opening, and emerged some hours 

 afterwards through a swallow hole where a stream flowed rapidly into the 

 cave. We travelled nearly 400 yards, first tramping through still water 

 then crawling over banks of compact clay which are apparently above 

 the flood level, as here and there stalagmite had formed. (In a couple 

 of deposits we found cave pearls). We finally came out on all fours 

 along the stream bed to a point about 150 yards from where we entered. 

 We had not time to follow the stream and ascertain whether it could be 

 traced out or whether it formed a syphon. As the roof was low where 

 we first encountered it, there is a probability of the latter, 



Carrigacrump Caves about 7.\ miles from Cloyne are of a totally 

 different nature. There are several openings in the face of the cliff . 

 leading to caverns which consist mainly of lofty vertical fissures crossed 

 by others at right angles. Crystalline stalagmite deposits abound. All 

 these caves contain water at every season of the year. In some places 

 it is 10 feet deep. 



In the largest cave we came across a stalagmite boss 16 feet high, and 

 47 feet in circumference round the base. It tapered to a line point at 

 the top, near it was a pillar measuring 18 feet to the roof, and 24 feet 

 around the base. Marking the entrance to a fissure was another boss 

 shaped like a pepper canister of hard gritty brown stalagmite. 



R. EVANvS. J 



Carker House, Doneraile. 



