Clare Caving Club

Fergus River Cave The landowner does not allow trips without explicit permission for a caving trip, the entrance is on an active farm and the field used for access always has livestock. No trespassing without permission. This cave is extremely flood prone and should not be visited unless weather conditions are appropriate.  This cave is arduous and route finding can be challenging.  This is one for experienced cavers - seek local knowledge before attempting a visit. Trip To Sweet Afton Corner Group Rowena Sheen Owen O'Connell Milosz Olejczuk Tim O'Connell Chris Hayes Weather Dry and settled forecast and preceding weeks Parking Kilnaboy church and carpool to farm entrance.  Trip Length 4 hours Description Milosz has been looking to get in here for a long time and always proposes it as a club trip - and a repeat visit timely after the long hiatus; after the flurry of activity a few years back (digging attempts, bottle carries, exploring, surveying and sump diving). With the...

  Clare Caving Club - Trip Log Poll na Gree Trip Overview Location:           Burren Date:          6 -04-25 Participants:           Donal, Naoise, Chris, Owen, Jen, Colin, Michau, Jarek, Paddy Trip Leader:           Colin Bunce Difficulty Level: Moderate Weather Conditions:  Sunshine Cave Description Route:          To the traverses Trip Description: Despite a couple of newbies we moved pretty quickly down to the start of the traverses and 'Tim's trouble', which the 2 women passed with little problem. Michau, Jarek, Paddy and Chris went further on along the traverses while the rest made a slower return to the sunshine, stopping for a few photos. Equipment: None needed Highlights:                           ...

Poll na Gollum (Poll na gColm) Trips/ Groups : 1 - Gunman's Cave to Signature Rock back via Shaft Gallery Rowena Sheen Tim O'Connell Donal Hogan Owen ? Jennifer ? Anna Moloney 2 -  Shaft Gallery to Signature Rock back via  Gunman's Cave John Sweeney Cecilia Brizuela Tom Flanagan Oisin Flanagan John Connole 3 - PollnaGollum to Craven Canyon return Arkadiusz Plociniak Jarosław Banasiak Michau Pe 4  - Poll Elva to PollnaGollum Milosz Olejczuk Lukasz Strycharski Weather :  Dry and settled. 8 Deg / Water 6 Deg Parking :  Caherbullog Trip Length :  4 hours (for all!) Description Great mix of trips today - the club hosted a club tryout day for novices/ beginners (welcome to all 6!) with simultaneous trips for more advanced cavers to the nether regions of the cave. Highlights include 'the walk in the dark' & Michau/ Lucasz spotting an inscription from 1943 from Jack Coleman and N. Dunnington. (location "When you pass Craven Canyon going from Pollnagolum side (t...

Gonzo! 9/2/25 Today Michal, Milo and Arek went for some SRT training 💪  The frost seems to be gone and Gods of rain went for a break.... why not use the opportunity of a bit smaller water flow in the well known and famous waterfall at the bottom of the Poll Gonzo. 

Coolagh River - Polldonagh South to Main Drain. 9th Feb Group : John Sweeney Des Mc Nally Jarek Banasiak Rowena Sheen Paddy Griffin Andrew Gillispie (visiting caver) Weather :  Dry and settled. 7 Deg / Water 5 Deg Parking :  side of road. Small pull in spot opppsite entrance field. Will fit max 4 cars.  Trip Length :  3 hours 15 mins Cave was enter it via the New pipe installed by Pegasus Caving Club. Water levels were low. First section over double passage was completed without hitch. Old rope at Columb chamber. Use with caution. Continue through Gower passage. Pitch head has two petzl permanent and one spit. Handline in place. Do not use! Rig ladder of the spit and lifeline with a mixture of permanent’s, sling on nodule and spit. (Club should consider rigging for Y Hang and making old spit redundant). Rapid descent to  main drain in cold conditions. Reached terminus and retreated out. Evidence of a survey (red paint) being undertaken and flood debris at 6+ Mtr...

  Clare Caving Club - Trip Log Poll Gonzo Trip Overview Location:           Poll Gonzo, Carron, Burren Date:           13-01-25 Participants:           Colin, Tim, Des, Paddy Trip Leader:           Anarcho-syndicalist commune Difficulty Level: Technical Weather Conditions:  Dry Cave Description Access/ Entrance:           Polll Gonzo South Route:           Old Dig, Dry Pitch, Marmite Passage, Wet Pitch Trip Description: Checked the scaffolding in the old dig - still intact and undamaged but structurally questionable. Proceeded via dry pitch through block chamber to Marmite passage/ the ringpeice formation (which may have partially collapsed?) TO the head of the wet pitch. Paddy and Tim descended the wet pitch, with thanks to Des for spotting Paddy at the cha...