In 1918 the two villages became part of Czechoslovakia and the old county of Tekov was abolished; Levice, ten kilometres down the road, became the district town. For the people in the rock houses less changed than you would expect: they went on living in them, not as a curiosity but because that was the housing they had. Brhlovce stayed what it had always been — a small farming village on the edge of the volcanic hills.V roku 1918 sa obe dediny stali súčasťou Československa a stará Tekovská stolica zanikla; okresným mestom sa stali Levice, desať kilometrov po ceste. Pre ľudí v skalných domoch sa zmenilo menej, než by ste čakali: bývali v nich ďalej, nie ako v kuriozite, ale preto, že iné bývanie nemali. Brhlovce zostali tým, čím boli – malou roľníckou dedinou na kraji sopečných kopcov.
