Shannon/Polltullyard

Saturday 24/01/26

Shannon cave trip

Bryan, Ray, Mark and two Cornish miners that where visiting.

Meeting at The Hub for 11 am.

After deciding the cave to be the Shannon cave system.

The weather has been miserable all week with steady drizzle all day.

A cautious approach to any cave we do must be taken.

Taking two cars, we drove up to the farm yard below the track to the Shannon, a quick chat to the landowner and his wife, who had breakfast cooking and the fire blazing in the house.

Geared up and buzzing for the adventure that awaits, we headed up the track and down into the Polltullyard and the pitch, We rigged two descents, Ray and TP (Cornish lad) rigged, our plan for the route was to head to swinger's corner, with making good head way we where able to make to just before George's choke where we all then turned around and headed back.

The water levels were slightly higher than usual, but that was to be expected, so some of the routes through the chokes looked very different from before, making two of them a little harder to route find and involved us getting wetter than we wanted.

Back to the pitch and making good headway and well within our 9 pm call out time, we all made it up and out safely and a nice long wet cold walk back to the cars, over to black lion for a chippy and back to the hub to chat about our Shannon adventures.

Ray.