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Drumlins, County Monaghan
Drumlins, County Monaghan
This is a photograph of the drumlins of County Monaghan.
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Landscape of Character Areas
Landscape of Character Areas
Landscape of Character Areas in the Kildare County Plan.
Courtesy of Kildare County Development Plan Figure 18.1.
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Barrow Gorge
Barrow Gorge
The Barrow gorge extends from near Graiguenamanagh for ten kilometers south toward New Ross.
Map drawn by Stephen Hannon.
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An illustration of the Ice Ages.
An illustration of the Ice Ages.
An illustration of the Ice Ages.
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Archaelogical Record in Co. Kildare
Archaelogical Record in Co. Kildare
The cumulative impact of aerial discovery between 1971 and 1991 has transformed the archaeological record at Dunmanoge, County Kildare as illustrated above.
Copyright Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape.
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Commercial Forestry in Co. Wicklow
Commercial Forestry in Co. Wicklow
The theory that is enforced here is that forestry represents valuable biomass and contributes to reducing global climate change.
Courtesy of Annette Kelly.
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Balleally
Balleally
This is a photo of Balleally.
Courtesy of Arnold Horner.
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Bog railway near Derrygreenagh, Co. Tipperary.
Bog railway near Derrygreenagh, Co. Tipperary.
A net-work of narrow-gauge light railways radiate out across bogs in various midland counties from Bord na Mona processing works. These railways are used to send the harvested peat to the processing works.
Courtesy of Arnold Horner 2006.
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carboniferous glaciation
carboniferous glaciation
Why ice sheets expand is not fully known, but there is certainly evidence that there have been ice ages in the remote past. One such was during the Carboniferous era about 300 million years ago. The world’s land masses were then arranged very differently to what they are now. Ireland was close to the Equator and escaped the cold. But parts of what are now South America, South Africa, India and Australia were affected. These areas then belonged to a supercontinent known as Pangea-Gondwanaland. Evidence for the former ice age is embedded in the rock record.
Figure modified after Scotese, C.R., 2001, Atlas of Earth History, Volume 1.
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Clints and grikes
Clints and grikes
The clints are enlarged depressions along the rock joint and the grike is the upstanding area of limestone left between the clints.
Copyright Geological Survey of Ireland 2006.