128 CORRYS WITH OB WITHOUT LAKE-BASINS. 



in such places unless the special forces connected 

 with them respectively had been at work. 



In the County Kerry most of the corrys are large 

 and well-developed, while in West Galway and 

 Mayo they range from large to small, Glenawough, 

 in the Formnamore Mountains, being as large and 

 grand as any in Kerry, while some of those situated 

 in the Maumturk Hills are mere holes or recesses in 

 the mountain slopes, some of the smaller being less 

 in extent than the cooms which are now being 

 excavated by the Atlantic Ocean at the present day 

 in the coast cliffs of the neighbourhood. 



All the corrys in Galway and Mayo are connected 

 with breaks or dislocations in the strata, and their 

 forms have a greater or less regularity in accordance 

 with the position and number of the lines of breaks. 

 As there is a similarity between the larger excava- 

 tion (to which some would confine the term corry) 

 and the smaller ones, it is quite legitimate to argue 

 from either to the other ; therefore, as the formation 

 of cooses on a sea-coast is easily studied, we may de- 

 scribe their mode of formation. 



The north-west coast of the County Galway, near 

 the mouth of Ballynakill Harbour, is favourably 

 situated for the excavation, by marine action, of 

 land-locked cooses, and here, in a short coast-line, 

 many of them may be noted. Of these, one is large 

 enough in plan to be classed amongst Mr Close's 



