618 Orchard Cave
Cobadal VN4800(7)9856(3) Altitude 152m  Length 176m Depth 13m

Updated 25th May 2003

A tree-lined entrance shakehole has a short climb down into a passage that leads to a walking-sized streamway which has various inlets all of which dwindle, becoming too tight.

The entrance stream enters the side of a large passage where daylight is seen from other stream inlets. The strong draught blows out from a downstream crawl on sandstone. At a climb down on a fault the passage widens and then enters a major boulder choke area which floods severely. A squeeze leads to a 4m climb down in large boulders. All the strong draughts enter from fissures on the left.

There is little prospect of extension.

References: anon., 1986 (logbook); material in file; survey; anon., 2003b (Easter logbook)
Entrance picture : 1  2  3
Underground picture(s):
Videos: by Juan Corrin
Walking from the Orchard Cave entrance to the newly excavated site, 1874 in wooded shakeholes (1.4Mb)
Small compilation of the following (1.1Mb)
Steve Martin moving upstream near the downstream end (0.9Mb)
Main passage, Steve and Terry moving downstream (1.6Mb)
Entrance route entering the main passage (1.0Mb)
Small oxbow (1.4Mb)
Moving upstream in the entrance passage (1.0Mb)
Moving downstream in the entrance passage (1.6Mb)
Penny Corrin emerging from the entrance (0.9Mb)
Terry Whitaker emerging from the entrance (1.1Mb)
Detailed Survey : scan of hand drawn survey
Line Survey :
On area survey : pdf file with Snottie, Torcida and Woodcutters' Caves
Survex file :