156 F. R. Coicper Reed — Carries of Comeragh Mountains. 



sea-level, while on each side of it the top of the escarpment is over 

 2,000 feet high, A little north of Coumshingaun the escarpment 

 again bends round and runs south for nearly three miles to the 

 Mahon River. 



In addition to the short, steep, grassy spurs which slope down 

 from the face of the escarpment to the plain, and between which lie 

 the rock- walled corries, there is an extensive promontory of hilly 

 ground, composed of Old Red Sandstone and connected with the 

 main mass by a low isthmus ; it projects eastwards nearly opposite 

 Coumshingaun for a distance of about four miles across the Lower 

 PalEeozoic platform, and rises towards its extremity into the prominent 



Reduced to a scale 5 miles to 1 inch. 



Fig. 1. — Contour-Map of the Comeragh Mountains and neighbourhood. 



1, Lough More ; 2, Coumduala Lough ; 3, Coumgorra Loughs ; 4, Crotty's Lough ; 

 5, Coumshingaun Lough ; 6, Comeragh Loughs ; 7, Coumstilloge Loughs. 



