O'Reilly — On the Waste of the Coad of Ireland^ 8^0. 195 



(p. 7.) — " The indentations into the land along tho south coast, 

 especially those that form harbouxs, often lie in the lines of the 

 previously mentioned transverse valleys. Four miles on the east of 

 Mizen Head, however, is the long narrow bay called Crookhaven, 

 which coincides with a longitudinal valley. The bay called Skull 

 Harbour, which lies a few miles further east, is partly sheltered from 

 the swell of the Atlantic by the islands off the coast. Koaringwater Bay, 

 still further eastward, runs for more than two miles up into the laud. 



"About 3 miles on the east of Baltimore is Lough Hyne, a 

 picturesque salt-water lake, out of and into which the tide ebbs and 

 flows with tremendous force, as the entrance is very narrow 

 compared with the capacity of the Lough. Further north-east are 

 the long narrow harbours called Castlehaven, Glandore, and the Bay 

 of Eosscarbery. This last-named is gradually filling up with sand 

 and slob. (jSTote.) — When Smith wrote his ' History of the County 

 Cork,' it was a tradition that, ' the harbour of Eosscarbery was 

 formerly navigable for ships.' " 



(p. 18.) — " A little on the west of the north harbour (in Clare 

 Island) there is the ruin of a castle called Doonanore, which shows 

 the encroachment of the sea during the historical ages. Smith, in 

 his 'History of Cork,' written in the year 1750, vol. i., p. 286, 

 mentions that ' there is a very narrow passage about a yard broad, 

 and 10 yards in length, leading to the castle.' Now (1860) this 

 passage is nearly all gone, and only half of the castle remains, as the 

 other half was carried away with the rock on which it was built." 



(p. 19.) — "There are small alluvial flats along some of the 

 rivers. Under the slob on the east of the town of Eosscarbery, 

 Mr. DujSToyer has noted that they dig peat bog for fuel, and also at 

 the head of Tralong Bay, which lies on the coast 2 miles south- 

 west of Eosscarbery. This shows that the land here must have sunk, 

 besides which we have a well-marked record of the encroachment 

 of the sea during the historical period of the old castle of Doneen, 

 which was built on a small island in Castlebay, a mile and a quarter 

 south of Eosscarbery. Half of the castle and the rock on which it 

 was built have been gradually carried away by the sea." 



Memoir Geological Survey of Ireland (Sheets 192 and part of 

 Sheet 199), (1864). 



(p. 5.) — " The country described comprises the ground round the 

 head of Bantry Bay, and a large part of the mountain ground 



