158 F. R. Cowper Reed — Carries of Comeragh Mountains. 



There is one sucli lateless corrie on the north of Knockanaffrin, and 

 like all the corries on the Reeks it is shallow and wide-mouthed, con- 

 sisting simply of a slightly curved amphitheatre of clififs descending 

 precipitously to a gently inclined floor, which from the mouth slopes 

 more steeply to the plain below. The small streams which issue 

 from these tarnless corries north of Knockanaffrin run down over 

 the surface of the ground in shallow channels to join the Glasha 

 River, which enters the Suir near Gurteen. 



The two lakes, known as Lough More and Conmduala Lough, lie 

 under the higher part of the escarpment, the former on the north 

 side of Knockanaffrin and the latter on the south side. The altitude 

 of Lough More is 1,518 feet, and it is situated in a wide, shallow 

 alcove with the cliffs rising 550 feet above it. In size it only 

 measures about 200 yards in length, and the stream issuing from it 

 runs down to join the Clodiagh. A dam of morainic material rises 

 about GO feet above the water's level and holds up the lake. 



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 Fig. 2. — Sketch-map of CoumgoiTa. 



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 Fig. 3. — Sketcli-map of Crotty's Lough Corrie. 



Conmduala Lough lies at an altitude of 1,533 feet in a shallow 

 amphitheatre where the escarpment is nearly 2,100 feet high ; screes 

 cover the foot of the cliffs, and the lake, Avhich is held up by a dam 

 on the north-east, has its length (250 yards) parallel to the trend of 

 the escarpment, and therefore across the mouth of the corrie. Its 

 overflow is conducted down to the Clodiagh by a stream from its 

 south-east corner. 



From Knockanaffrin the escarpment decreases in height towards 

 the Gap and curves round in an irregular semicircular line of cliffs 

 and scars so as to form a large broken corrie, but without any 

 definite floor, as the slope at the base of the cliffs is covered with 

 talus and morainic heaps. One of the head-streams of the Clodiagh 

 arises in this amphitheatre. 



None of the foregoing corries or tarns are comparable in importance 

 to the large ones south of the Gap which have now to be described, 



