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Aillwee Cave

Clare, County Clare, Ireland
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About Aillwee Cave

Aillwee Cave is a cave system within the karst panorama of the Burren in County Clare, Ireland. The call Aillwee is derived from the Irish Aill Bhuí this means that "yellow cliff". Privately owned, it paperwork a part of the Aillwee Cave and Birds of Prey Centre appeal. The cave system includes over a kilometre of passages main into the heart of the mountain. Its capabilities encompass an underground river and a waterfall as well as some huge stalactites and stalagmites. The stays of bears also can be visible inside the caves and allusions had been made to it being the final endure den in Ireland.

The cave is standard of the Clare caves, consisting inside the primary of circulation passage and ending in a sump. The widespread direction is east to west however turns due south a few 600 metres into the cave. The cave is drastically older than maximum of the Clare caves and at the beginning contained a massive move. The move has all but disappeared from the cave and is heavily backfilled with glacial infill.

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