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Co. Mayo. 



Caves of Aille. 



Symes, R. G., Geol. Survey Memoir to sheet 75, 1872, p. 9. 



Co. MONAGHAN. 



Rock House, Carrickmacross, &c. 

 Nolan, J., Geol. Survey Memoir to sheet 70, 1877, p. 10. 

 Co. Sl^IGO. 

 Keishcorraii and others. 



Cruise, R. J., Geol. Survey Memoir to sheets 66 and 6"], 1878, p. 13. 

 Caves on Ben Bulben. 

 Caves at Lissadill. 



Wynne, A. B., Geol. Survey Memoir to sheets 42 and ^2>i 1885, p. 28. 

 Kesh Caves. 

 GlenifFe Caves. 

 Hardman, E. T., " Limestone Caves of Sligo," in Wood-Martin's 

 " History of Sligo," First vol., 1S82, appendix A. 

 Co. Waterford. 

 Cave at Nicholastown. 



Brown rigg, W. B., and Theodore Cooke, "Geological Description 

 of the District extending from Dungarvan to Annestown, County 

 of Waterford." Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin^ IX., i860, pp. 8-12. 



The caves at Anna-Clogh Mullen, Co. Cork, mentioned by 

 Mr. Coleman, loc. cif., are artificial, and should not therefore 

 be included in the list of Irish caves. 



In certain districts in Ireland caves are so numerous that 

 any attempt to list them would be futile. Such, for instance, 

 is portion of Co. Fermanagh, concerning which Mr. Thomas 

 Plunkett, in reply to a query, stated that the hills around 

 Knniskillen are riddled with caves, and that he could not 

 attempt a list of them. So also in Cos. Mayo and Galway, in 

 the district that stretches along the eastern shore of Lough 

 Corrib from Cong to Galway, and in portions of Co. Clare, 

 subterranean passages abound, so that the streams are con- 

 tinually disappearing into the earth and re-appearing at other 

 places. But these caverns, being still occupied by the waters 

 by which they were formed, are of course not so interesting 

 to the student of either past or present cave-faunas as the 

 older passages, long since deserted by the streams which 

 excavated them, and subsequently tenanted by troglodytic 

 insects, or roving beasts of prey, or pre-historic man. 



