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Benjamin Thébaudeau

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

So this game is called Pigeonhole.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

Polna Gollum, some people said, not from here specifically, but the Gollum character in the Lord of the Rings might be inspired by the Irish for pigeon, Gollum, with the Uru Gollum.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

Because we know that Tolkien took other things from this landscape, didn't he?

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

And from the language, being a linguist.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

I think it was more attached to the actual Byrne landscape in County Clare than here.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

But that being said, it's a nice kind of reminder, just the alliteration, the polna golem.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

How extensive is the cave network?

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

The cave network is very extensive.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

However, it's through a lot of small cracks, so they're not easy to explore.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

There's a team from Bristol University, a speleological team, that has come over the year exploring the cave and trying to link up between the swallow holes on the southeast shore of Loch Mask to the springs around the Kong village.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

But they haven't been able to.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

It's just too narrow for the widest part.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

It's still unknown.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

And that's very important for anybody farming in particular on karst landscape.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

Because you have to make sure there's not an input where you are.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

Even if you're further away from a river or a stream, you might have actually a swallow hole in your land that you're not familiar with.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

There's a bit of a...

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

A light shining back here.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

This is manganese mineralization coming down from rainwater.

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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Geologist

The last thing I'm going to try and show you is there's a very nice fossil.

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