Much of the fieldwork carried out by the Society over the years has been in Co. Clare Ireland and we have been responsible for surveying over 50 km of passage, there. Descriptions of the caves, including many surveys are available in both our Proceedings and in our guide book to the area, Caves of Mid-West Ireland. Most of the data has been supplied by members of the Society, but some is from other sources. Particular thanks must go to Colin Bunce, Quentin Cowper and other members of the Speleological Union of Ireland and, especially, the Burren Crawlers. It is hoped to improve this dataset and keep it up to date, as well. As above, any queries about this project and any offers of additional data should be sent to the editor.

The “Survex” 3d version of this model does not have a surface overlay included as this makes for a very large file which is difficult to view. The “Therion” version does have a surface overlay which shows the relief. It does not, as yet, have a pictorial overlay, either photographic or mapping, as we do not, as yet, have one that is available to us. This will be added as soon as an open source version is available.

A similar map, without the 3d element, but with additional data about each cave, can be seen on our QGIS map of this area

File downloads

All of these files are released under a Creative Commons license

The Caves of the Burren “Survex” 3D file compiled by UBSS

The Caves of the Burren “Therion” 3D file compiled by UBSS

The 2016 survey of Cullaun Zero-One in pdf format.

The 2016 survey of Cullaun Zero in pdf format.

The 2018 survey of Cullaun One and associated caves in pdf format.

The 2018 survey of The Coolagh River Cave in pdf format.

The BCA Data Repository is trackable here.