*begin LowerPollElva23 ;Cave:Poulnagollum ;Survey Name: ;Description: ; ;Location: The County Clare ;Country:Rep of Ireland ;People - Inst: Does not say ; Notes: ; Pictures: ; Tape: ;Date: ;Instrument Set: ;Calibration: ;Typed in by John Telling on ;Adjusted for computing by Andrew Atkinson, 2000 ;Source:Pollnagollum PollElva 1958 survey by UBSS S.O.BOOK 321 (96 Pages) ; 58-IIIE ;From to Tape Compass Clino Notes *DATA Normal From to Length Bearing ignoreall *UNITS tape feet *CALIBRATE Compass +12 ;Calibration added by Graham Mullan 17 July 2002 ; ;Page 23 ;Lower PollElva (dry Canyon Passage) ;Bearings (magnetic, taken with a prismatic compass) and distances (wire ;reinforced tape) shown against a given survey station are readings from the ;previous survey station. Station 0 is at entrance to squeeze into ~e high ;right marked. Prime survey point ;[Diagram] ;[Passage description] ; ;Page 24 ;2nd column is the original leg number 0 1 39.5 210 Tight squeeze for 13' from station 0, leading to a ; large right passage about 50' high, 4' wide. The other entrance ; comes in about 30' from station 0.(see previous page) 1 2 19.5 206 Up on 8' boulder block. Passage 2' wide 2 3 12 200 Down 8' 3 4 6.5 200 Taking left fork; gone downabout 2'. One filthy, mud ; filled hole going R.. The right passage ends after 12' 4 5 5.5 116 2' high 5 6 11 160 6 7 3.5 218 Canyon passage with mud floor ; [Diagram] ; Fork right 1' wide probably ~~~~~~ to stream ;Page 25 7 8 16 121 [Diagram] 8 9 5.5 195 9 10 5.5 120 Roof meanders same as floor. Flood debris on wall ; from pot 10 11 6 215 11 12 4.5 125 *DATA Normal From to Length Bearing Gradient ignoreall 12 13 6 - down [This is a guess] ; Vertical. Stream six feet below, coming from left. ; Passage cuts across stream. (See survey of stream ; passage). Stream very ; heavily current marked, but no current marking in canyon ; passage. ; [Diagram] *DATA Normal From to Length Bearing ignoreall 13 14 5 171 Continuing in dry canyon passage 14 15 8 163 Over stal. barrier. Gour pools in floor, big stalactites ; in roof ; [Diagram] ; ;Page 26 ; 15 16 40 205 Slight meanders [Diagram] 16 17 12 210 Acroos a trib. 5'6'' down, L to R. about half the vol. ; of main stream ; Stream passage about 1'6" high 8' widw ; (This stream [?]would[?] appear not to be part of main ; stream + does not enter Stream Passage unless it does so ; near station 24 of Stream Passage survey EKT 11/58) ; [Diagram] 17 18 16.5 154 18 19 8 252 Sharp turn left ; small rabbit hole straight on 19 20 12 109 20 21 8.5 80 21 22 7 164 22 23 5 78 23 24 21 101 24 25 8 52 [Diagram] ;Page 27 25 26 3 352 Mud floor rises 2' ; roof same level 26 27 13 121 27 28 9 90 Floor rises 1' [Diagram] 28 29 10 104 Mud floor gone 29 30 8 75 [Diagram] Small trib. comes in on left. Flows app. N ; along/up passage; goes out L. with a lot of undercutting (this ; seems impossible on data given. Surely flows approx E is ; correct EKT 11/58) 30 31 7.5 127 31 32 9 78 Strong draught; passage 7' high 32 33 33.5 101 9' high; anastonosis ~~~~ 5' from roof. Pools of water ; in shaly floor 33 34 5 151 34 35 10 96 Mud false floor ;Page 28 35 36 13 142 Floor blocking goes 36 37 21 84 10' high, more pools 37 38 7 61 *(B.great asterisk)Stream flows TOWARDS us 38 39 4.5 356 Spiders web (Genuine) 39 40 17 77 Stream flowing toward us. The stream passage cuts across ; canyon passage ; [Diagram] 40 41 16 62 [Diagram] 41 42 18 111 42 43 18 64 Water flowing L to R 43 44 19 98 [Diagram] ;Page 29 44 45 11 72 Water flowing toward surveyers. Ox-bows on right 45 46 8 102 46 47 14 72 Stream with surveyers most of time, cutting in & out of ; walls 47 48 8 102 Trib. left containing tiny trckle, closes down 48 49 9 20 Draught 49 50 10 98 Solid rock floor (is stream still here EKT 11/58) 50 51 6 59 51 52 8 137 52 53 26 82 6' high. 6' deep pool in floor 53 54 32.5 105 Powerful draught 54 55 16 120 Mud banks. One very old boot print 55 56 13.5 77 Carbide arrow pointing back along passage ;Page 30 ; [Diagrams and discriptions] ; ;Page 31 ;going into L.passage ; 56 57L 29 4 Flood debris everywhere. Shale & maud floor; meander in ; roof ; [Diagram] ; Mud filled trib. L 57L 58L 29.5 69 Big stream L.-> R. Survey stn. on corner. Passage 8' ; wide. Mud stalagmite of far floor. Solution avens in roof. 58L 59 19 43 Stream under cutting both sides. False floor 1'6" high 59 60 33 106 Now in small chamber containing a pool of water. ; Stream coming from left. (due N) On right a tight crawl leads ; to the final chamber. ; [Diagram] 60 61 15 188 Aven chamber: passage going E leads to a beding plain ; about 3' high closes after 20 feet. Tunnel like Aven (slope of ; roof about 20 degrees, slope of floor - covered with flowstone ; cemented boulders - about 45 degrees. Bearing of Aven 255. ; Height and length 15 feet. *END LowerPollElva23