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Glenloig Cave

Creag an Fheidh, 0.5km S of Glenloig, Arran, Ayrshire.

Cave, enlarged by quarrying.

"Three quarters of a mile NE from Pigeon Cave of Derenenach is another cave in which limestone occurs, about 500 yards south of Glenloig. The locality where this occurs is called Creag an Fheidh, and there is a steeply sloping hollow about 20 yards wide running in an NNE direction and bounded by crags on either side ... The cave is on the western side of the hollow, and has a slanted opening some 12 to 15 feet high. It runs back at right angles to the hollow about 15 yards at the north end. It is at this part of the cave that the limestone is visible, but it is very irregular in thickness, and only some two to three feet at the most, though, as the rock was once quarried, it may have been much thicker. It occurs in association with sandstone and some shale, and dips to the NNW apparently from 30 to 40 degrees ... The cave has no doubt been enlarged by artificial means, but it is certainly to a great extent natural, and water sinks at the western end at a place now covered by loose stones. Probably this was at one time open." [BGS memoir]

"Probable Upper Cretaceous limestones, now silicified and baked, are found in two localities, one forming a small cave marking the site of an old limestone quarry at Creag an Fheidh (NR 948 348)." [JNCC/GCR]

Alternate Names: Creag an Fheidh Cave

Notes: The Cretaceous rocks occur as a large 'remanié mass' within a Tertiary volcanic vent.

Cave referred to as "the Glenloig cave" in the BGS memoir.

Location general for Creag an Fheidh (6 fig. NGR). NR 94672 34591 suggested by Google Earth aerial photography.