Wright and Muff — Pre-glacial Raised Beach. 297 



County Wexford. The sections are best described from east to 



west, commencing a little over half a mile west of Bar of Lough 



at the point where the Oullenstown Road joins the coast. Near 



the remains of an old limekiln, built in the modern cliff, is the 



following section : — 



Feet. 



Boulder-clay, with Leinster Granite, . . 9 



Head, . . . . . . , . 4 



Sandy pebbly loam, with slate fragments and 



quartz pebbles, . . . . 5 



Black and red ferricrete sands and gravels 



(beach), . . . . . . . . 4-5 



Rock-platform, covered by recent shingle. 



The boulder-clay is a clayey drift with many small stones and 

 large blocks of Leinster Granite. 



The head is rather coarse, with angular fragments of broken 

 rock. The pebbly loam beneath the^head is a remarkable and rather 

 unique deposit. It is a brown loam, sandy in places, containing 

 angular fragments of green slate and rounded quartz pebbles. 

 It has gravelly current-bedded bands at the base. The bed 

 extends almost continuously from here to Ballymadder Point — a 

 distance of three-quarters of a mile. 



The beach-deposits are horizontally bedded, and contain well- 

 rounded stones. 



The platform is seen on the shore sixty yards out from the 

 cliff, and thirty yards to the east at the limekiln. 



Near a small point, a few hundred yards west of the limekiln, 

 large, more or less rounded local blocks lie on the rock-platform 

 among the beach-gravel and sand, showing that the rock-cliff 

 is not far behind the present drift-cliff. The section is : — 



Feet. 

 Boulder-clay, . . . . . . 12 



Coarse and local angular head, . . 6 



Sandy, pebbly loam, as before, . . 5 



Ferricrete sand and gravel blocks, . . . . 2-3 



Uneven ribbed rock-platform just above high- water mark. 



About thirty yards west of this point the sand having the 

 appearance of blown sand can be seen under the head. Here, also, 

 there is an outstanding knob of rock water-worn to a height of 



