Talk:Noon's Hole

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Deepest pothole

There is some confusion in terminology here: Noon's had the deepest underground shaft in Ireland, before the entrance shaft in Reyfad was discovered -- 250ft is the depth of the surface shaft (which still makes it the deepest daylight shaft in Ireland), not of the entire pothole/cave (which is around 108 metres (354 ft)). Similarly 300ft is the depth of the entrance shaft of Reyfad (which is the deepest known underground shaft in Ireland), but the whole of the Reyfad system reaches 193 metres (633 ft) in depth, making it the deepest cave in Ireland.

The recent new passage discovered in Pollatoomary has made it the deepest sump (i.e. underwater section of cave) in the UK and Ireland (currently 103 metres (338 ft)) but it does not surpass Reyfad's Irish cave depth record or underground shaft record.

Hope this hasn't all come out like gibberish! I'll alter the wording in the article in relation to the above information. -- Fattonyni (talk) 15:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image

I've added my own photo to the article, which is ok from a caving/action point of view, but doesn't really show off the entrance shaft too well. If anyone would like to donate a daylight pic looking up the shaft it would suit much better, my pic could be included further down the article. Fattonyni (talk) 17:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]