Pollatoomary
Pollatoomary is the deepest explored underwater cave in Ireland. It has been explored to an underwater depth of.
First discovered in 1978 by cave diver Martyn Farr, the cave was explored to a depth of underwater by Artur Kozłowski, one of Farr's students, on 5–6 July 2008. Following Kozłowski's death in 2011, the cave was entered again by Michal Marek, who pushed the depth to.
The cave is located in the Partry Mountains in the townland of Bellaburke near Killavally, Westport, County Mayo, where the Aille River reemerges, having gone underground at Aille caves some away. The cave entrance is on privately owned farmland.
The explored limit of Pollatoomary is also deeper underwater than that of the terminal sump in Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset, England, which had previously held the record for the deepest underwater cave in Britain and Ireland.
