810 SoLLAS — A Map to show the Distribution of Eskers in Ireland. 



i. The Newtown-Loe chain. — This includes the following chains : — 



1. Newtown-Loe chain proper and the tributary chain of Ballynagore 



(about 5 miles south-west of Lough Ennell). 



2. Streamstown chain (the southern part of which is nearly 6 miles 



west of Lough Ennell). 



3. Ballymore chain (about 9 miles west of Lough Ennell), and the 



parallel chain of Ballymahon (about 12 miles west of Lough 

 Ennell). 



4. Athlone chain, with several tributaries, including that of Lough 



Funshinagh. 



1. The Newtown-Loe chain proper. — This commences in the bog of Donore 

 Bridge, with a direction from north-west to south-east ; but, after a straight course 

 of about a mile and a half, it turns at first east, and then south-east, forming 

 a wide convex curve open to the south, and then enters the main system of Clara. 



About the middle of the curve the small chain of Ballinagore, coming from the 

 north, is brought into close proximity with it ; and with this the eskers west of 

 Lough Owel and Lough Ennell should probably be associated. Where its course 

 is most eastward a single long esker runs parallel at no great distance from it, the 

 intervening ground being occupied by bog. 



The height of the chain is given as about 70 feet, the angle of the slope on 

 each side as S0°. Large blocks of limestone rest upon its flanks. 



2. The Streamstown chain. — This complicated chain, nearly 12 miles long 

 altogether, running, on the whole, north and south, may represent a northern 

 feeder of the Newtown-Loe chain. About Streamstown it forms a plexus, of which 

 fig. 3, taken from the Survey Memoii', gives a good representation. 



3. The Ballymore chain. — This broken chain extends southwards, roughly 

 parallel to the southern part of the Streamstown chain, and about 3^ miles to the 

 west of it. About 6 miles south of Ballymore it turns sharply south-eastwards ; 

 li miles further on in that direction we come to an isolated esker with the same 

 direction, and therefore parallel to that portion of the Newtown-Loe chain already 

 mentioned as running north-west to south-east, the distance between theru being 

 2 miles. This may possibly represent the southerly termination of the Ballymahon 

 chain. 



The N.N.W. to S.S.E. chain, lying about 2 miles west of that of Ballymore, is 

 the Ballymahon chain. 



