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point where it sinks eastward into the plain. Its highest points are 

 Trisk and Maulin Mountains, which are upwards of 700 feet above 

 the sea. Prom these points the gi-ound slopes away very gently 

 towards the sea on all sides except the east, terminating in rugged 

 cliffs, which attain in some places, to a height of 200 feet, but 

 generally vary from 50 to 100 feet. 



(p. 10.) — " The action of the water on the north coast of Kerry 

 Head has caused the cliffs to assume various curious forms in many 

 places, such as caves and natural arches. Near Ballingarry Island 

 are some good examples, as also at Illaunamuck. (Fig. 1)." 



Memoir Geological Survey of Ireland (Sheets 140, 161, 171, 

 and part of 172), 1863. That promontory of KeiTy which stretches 

 on the north side of Dingle Bay, and south-west of the Bay 

 of Tralee, happens to be divided among foui' of the Sheets, but can 

 obviously be only described as one district. The general form of the 

 ground is that of a broken ridge, traversed by several large valleys 

 and ending westward in the precipitous islets and rocks known as the 

 Blaskets. 



(p. 8.) — "This north and south ridge of Mount Brandon rises 

 gradually fi'om the sea near the town of Dingle, till, in the course of 

 2 or 3 miles, it attains an altitude of about 2000 feet. Still further 

 north it rises to 2764 feet, in Brandon Peak, where it has in some 

 places so narrow a crest that a man may sit down astride of it. A 

 mile further north, it reaches with, a broader crest, the extreme 

 altitude of 3127 feet, at the point called Brandon Hill or Moimt 

 Brandon. From this point it declines towards the north, but still 

 maintains an altitude of 2500 feet to within fi'ds of a mile of the 

 sea, and tenniuates in the grand cliffs of Brandon Head. The north 

 and south ridge of Brandon Mountains looks to the west over much 

 low ground, which is indented by Dingle and Yentry Harboui's on the 

 south, and by Smerwick Harbour on the north. Between these there 

 runs an undulating ridge, which rises in some points to the height of 

 900 or 1000 feet high. This is within a mile of the sea-shore, and 

 the promontory terminates in Slea Head, which is 766 feet high, and 

 the lower Dunmore Head, which is the most western point of the 

 mainland. (See fig. 3, p. 10)." 



(p. 9.) — "From the cliffs of Brandon Head, a line of similar but 

 lower cliffs is continued along the north coast of the peninsula, broken 

 only by the entrance to Smerwick Harbour. One siunmit of these 



