Monday, 12.--I went to Dunmore Cave, three or four miles from Kilkenny. It is fully as
remarkable as Poole's Hole, or any other in the Peak. The opening is round, parallel to the
horizon and seventy or eighty yards across. In the midst of this there is a kind of arch, twenty
or thirty feet high. By this you enter into the first cave, which is nearly round and forty or
fifty feet in diarneter. It is encompassed with spar-stones, just like those on the sides of
Poole's Hole. On one side of the cave is a narrow passage which goes under the rock two or
three hundred yards; on the other, a hollow which no one has ever been able to find an end
of. I suppose this hole too, as well as many others, was formed by the waters of the deluge
retreating into the great abyss, with which probably it communicates.
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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