O'Eeilly — On the Waste of the Coast of Ireland, ^c. 133 



2-5 feot per anrmm. Fiirther eastward, at the south-west of t)ie 

 townlaiid of Haggard, the waste is nearly 1-5 foot per annum, but in 

 the east portion of the townland, also in those of BLackhall and Loftus 

 A.cre, it has been excessive, in places reaching 3 feet per annum. 



"Further eastward, in the townland of Ballymadder, the denuda- 

 tion is less, being about TS feet per annum. This is also the average 

 in the western portion of Cullenstown. In these places, at the base of 

 the cliif in the aqueous drift, are recent sandstones or conglomerates 

 that resist the sea action, and thus preserve the accumulation resting 

 on them, while at the east of the townland, opposite the end of 

 Ballyteige "Warren, there has been great waste, over 3 feet per annum. 

 The Ballyteige "Warren is an irregular ridge of JEolian Drift. Its 

 outer margin seems to have been more or less cut away since 1840, 

 whilst its western end has grown more than 400 feet in length. At 

 the east of Crossfarnoge Point, to the eastward of Ballyteige Wan-en, 

 shingle has accumulated west of Kilmore Quay ; but a little farther 

 eastward, north and north-east of St. Patrick's Bridge in the 

 townland of Nemestown, there has been considerable waste, in some 

 places as much as 200 feet since 1840, or over 5 feet per annum; at 

 this place there seems to have been the maximum denudation on the 

 south coast. 



"Farther east-north-east, in the townlands of Ballygrangans, 

 Bastardstown, and Ballyhealy (Wexford^), the waste is about 1'4 

 per annum, and in Ringbaun and Ballagh about 1 foot. 



" Between Tacumshin and Lady's Island lakes, the denudation 

 of the coast line has been from 5 to 50 feet in the last thirty-seven 

 years, while the bank enclosing the latter lagoon (Lady's Island lake) 

 has been pushed inland more than 60 feet. Eastward, in Burrow, 

 "Wexford (Wexford Sheet 53), the coast has been cut away at about a 

 rate of '75 foot per annum, the denudation ceasing suddenly as we 

 approach Carnsore Point. 



' ' At Carnsore Point and from that northwards to the old coast- 

 guard station at St. Helen's, there has been very little general 

 denudation of the coast, although the strand margin for the most part 

 is drift. In a few places, the denudation is more or less considerable. 



" From the old coast-guard station of St. Helen's to Greenore, and 

 from that eastward and northward to Eosslare coast-guard station, 

 considerable denudation has taken place. Here the cliffs are high 

 and formed of marl. They therefore nearly invariably come down 

 in slides, the debris of which must be removed by the sea before 

 another slide takes place, and but for this the waste would be much 



