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Blarney Stone Cave was discovered by means of an intense digging effort in a small sinkhole where snow had been observed to melt during the winter. A difficult entrance series opened into a large and complex cave system which was explored to both the northeast and the southwest. Blarney Stone Cave is exceptionally well decorated with unusual aragonite speleothems. To the northeast, Blarney Stone Cave approached closely to the southwestern end of Bobcat Cave. After systematic exploration followed by digging to remove clastic fill, the two caves were connected to form the Chestnut Ridge Cave System.
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Clemmer, G. (2015). Finding the Blarney Stone. In: White, W. (eds) The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14391-0_7
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