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Wicklow Mountains
Wicklow Mountains
This large mountain group on the east coast of Ireland, extends from the Wicklow/Dublin border south-westwards to the Blackstairs Mountains in Wexford.
Courtesy of Dr. Arnold Horner
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Mayo Landscape
Mayo Landscape
Mayo landscape with Nephin mountain in the background.
Copyright Liam Lyons.
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Giant's Causeway and the sea
Giant's Causeway and the sea
This photograph shows the Giant's Causeway which is located on the coast of County Antrim.
Courtesy of Nicola Smith
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An illustration of a friesian cow.
An illustration of a friesian cow.
These black and white Friesian cows now seem universal across dairying regions like the Golden Vale between Limerick and Waterford.
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Lauragh Village, Co. Kerry.
Lauragh Village, Co. Kerry.
An example of the small settlement area and the unprecedented 'bungalow blitz' on hitherto slowly-changing landscapes.
Courtesy of Camping Ireland and Creveen Lodge Caravan Park
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Tetrapod Trail
Tetrapod Trail
Amphibians are animals that can live on land as well as in water. The tracks at Valentia were made around 385 million years ago by a four-legged amphibian known as a tetrapod. At that time what is now Ireland was at or near a very large ‘supercontinent’ (comprising an amalgam of most of the present-day continents), and lay south of the equator. Since then, over hundreds of millions of years, and due to the slow rearrangement and movement of large sections of the Earth’s crust as a result of the processes known as ‘plate tectonics’, ‘Ireland’ has drifted north to its present position. The footprints the tetrapod made across the ripple-marked sandy shore became covered in muddy sediment and then were preserved as the sediment hardened and later transformed into siltstone and slate. Hundreds of millions of years later, they have been uncovered as the sea erodes the rocks along the Valentia shoreline. In the mid-1990s, a Swiss geologist, Iwan Stössel, recognised the scientific importance of the Valentia tetrapod site as a record of a major stage in the evolution of life on Earth, the time when vertebrate life left the sea and began to breathe air and walk across land. The rather inconsequential-looking track-marks preserved at this site are what may be the earliest fossil record, possibly anywhere in the world, of the activities of an amphibian animal. [For more information, see Matthew Parkes, The Valentia Tetrapod Trackway, which is available from the Geological Survey of Ireland, price €2; See also Kerri Westenberg, The rise of life on Earth: from fins to feet, National Geographic, 196, 1999, pp.114-127].
Copyright Arnold Horner.
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Kingsmountain Wind Farm
Kingsmountain Wind Farm
This windfarm in Kingsmountain, Templeboy is a recent development.
Copyright managed by the Library Council
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Griffiths Valuation - information relating to The Black Islands
Griffiths Valuation - information relating to The Black Islands
pdf of page from Griffiths Valuation
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Keyser's Hill
Keyser's Hill
Photograph from the Cork Camera Club collection showing Keyser's Hill
Cork Camera Club collection, Cork City Libraries
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Sir Christopher and Lady Wandesford
Sir Christopher and Lady Wandesford
Portrait of Sir Christopher and Lady Wandesford