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2. Marble Arch Caves - Wikipedia

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   Drawing by É. A. Martel, depicting the first exploration of Marble Arch Caves in 1895. The Marble Arch, Cladagh River resurgence and three large dolines on the plateau above the end of Cladagh Glen were all known well before underground exploration began; in fact the arch was a popular tourist attraction in the 19th century. [7]

3. Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark - Wikipedia

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   Marble Arch Caves are a major draw for visitors in Northern Ireland and these show caves exhibit a wide range of classic cave features which are enjoyed by visitors by boat and on foot. The Cavan Burren Park is an area of forestry land near Blacklion in County Cavan, which contains a wealth of prehistoric monuments linked by trails, with a ...

4. Édouard-Alfred Martel - Wikipedia

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   Drawing by Martel, depicting the first exploration of Marble Arch Caves in Ireland, 1895. In 1896, he was invited by the Archduke Luis Salvator, a cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, to visit their country. With his foreman and journeyman Louis Armand, he explored several caves on the island of Mallorca.

5. River Cladagh - Wikipedia

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   The Sruh Croppa and Aghinrawn flow together for a short distance from Cradle Hole into Marble Arch Cave, before joining up with the Owenbrean at The Junction. In normal water levels, the Marble Arch Caves tour begins by boat, underground on the initial stretch of the Cladagh, and passes The Junction before continuing upstream along the Owenbrean.

6. List of caves in Ireland - Wikipedia

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   Typical County Fermanagh stream passage in Marble Arch Caves. At 11.5 km (7.1 mi), the system is the longest in Northern Ireland and second longest in Ireland. The deepest cave in Ireland is Reyfad Pot in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 193 metres (633 ft) deep.

7. Caving in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   In the mid-1880s, Herbert E. Balch began exploring Wookey Hole Caves and in the 1890s Balch was introduced to the caves of the Mendip Hills. Frenchman Édouard-Alfred Martel reached the underground lake of Marble Arch in Northern Ireland in 1895. In Yorkshire, he made the second descent, after Birkbeck in 1842, into the pothole of Gaping Gill ...

8. Marble Sculpture Bought for $6 and Used as Doorstop Could ...

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   A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...

9. Henry Lyster Jameson - Wikipedia

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   In 1895 he explored the Marble Arch Caves with Édouard-Alfred Martel, [3] and was the first to describe fauna in the Mitchelstown Cave. [4] After a year at the Royal College of Science in London, Jameson studied zoology under Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg, writing his dissertation (1898) on Thalassema neptuni, a species of ...