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with a rapidly rising trend. The passage is 2 feet high by 2^ feet 

 in width and 5 feet long, rising 4 feet in this short length. The 

 second chamber measures 7 feet by 5 feet. Its original height is 

 difficult to guess, as the floor has been deeply buried in mud 

 by the action of floods ; nevertheless, even above the deposit, 

 several feet deep, there is ample standing room. The roof 

 of this chamber is formed by large covering flags, laid on the 

 rock-cut sides. From this chamber an exceedingly narrow 

 passage 18 inches wide by 21 inches high leads upwards to 

 the third chamber, a small one, measuring 6 feet by 82 feet, 

 roofed like the last, with flag stones laid on the rock-cut 

 sides. Its height averages about 4 feet. At the extreme end 

 under the roof is a cavity which, as it is only about 18 inches 

 below the surface of the field above, is choked up with soil. 

 This I take to have been a chimney. The total length of the 

 cave is 50 feet, forming a curve, so that the last room is at right 

 angles to the first. The floor of the narrow passages between 

 the rooms, and to a lesser extent the floors of the rooms them- 

 selves slope upwards steeply, the level of the floor of the upper 

 chamber being quite 9 feet above that of the entrance, or an 

 average rise of nearly 1 in 5, producing exactly as in Donegore 

 cave a natural draught to carry out the smoke from the fireplace 

 in the upper chamber. 



There are visible evidences of the cave having been sub- 

 jected to severe flooding. The rock floor of the upper chamber' 

 was washed clean, while the passage leading from it and the 

 room below were deeply embedded with mud to the depth of 

 three feet or more in places. Through this deposit were cut 

 deep narrow channels by the action of the flooding stream. We 

 proceeded to remove this deposit, an exceedingly difficult matter 

 as it all had to be taken down through the lower passage only 

 24 X 27 inches. To assist in this I got a small long narrow 

 truck made which just fitted the passage, lowering the mud 

 in this down the whole length of the cave to the low ground 

 outside, where I examined every load in daylight. It was 



