Reading the Irish LandscapeThis is the third revision of this seminal work. Co-authored by original author Frank Mitchell and now Michael Ryan, the result is a stunning collaboration between masters giving all the elements of the original book, modified, updated and further enhanced by the inclusion of a new narrative of Irish archaeology from the Stone Age to the Norman Invasion. Together they have successfully undertaken the daunting task of giving in one book the story of the shaping of the land from the beginning of time until now, by all tbe varying forces of nature, sea, climate, man and machine. The story takes in the shaping of the crust, the movement of glaciers, the first men and their primitive agriculture, their buildings and their effect on the forests, the growth of bogs, new migrations, the rise of the monasteries of the Early Christians and the castles of conquest, the devastation of war, urban growth, modern agriculture and afforestation, all set against the backdrop of the landscape, arguably one Ireland's most precious resources. |
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Page 44
... valleys . Armed with its contained pieces of rock , it deepened the V - shaped valley into a U - shaped trench . The magnificent results of recent valley glaciation of this type can be seen in the Wicklow Mountains ( Col. 10 ) and in ...
... valleys . Armed with its contained pieces of rock , it deepened the V - shaped valley into a U - shaped trench . The magnificent results of recent valley glaciation of this type can be seen in the Wicklow Mountains ( Col. 10 ) and in ...
Page 78
... valley sloping to the north and a lobe of ice pressed up the valley , deeply scouring it to a depth that in places lies below modern sea level . Continuing south , the ice breached the watershed at the head of the valley and entered the ...
... valley sloping to the north and a lobe of ice pressed up the valley , deeply scouring it to a depth that in places lies below modern sea level . Continuing south , the ice breached the watershed at the head of the valley and entered the ...
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... valley , is cutting away the flanks of the valley and deepening its floor . ( Opposite ) In the Wicklow Mountains about 15,000 years ago , a similar glacier carried out almost the same functions and created the U - shaped valley that we ...
... valley , is cutting away the flanks of the valley and deepening its floor . ( Opposite ) In the Wicklow Mountains about 15,000 years ago , a similar glacier carried out almost the same functions and created the U - shaped valley that we ...
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The Ice Age 1700000 to 13000 years ago 335 | 35 |
The End of the Ice Age | 81 |
Response to Warm Conditions 98 886 | 98 |
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agricultural animals Antrim basin blanket bog bones Britain Bronze Age built burial cattle centre century clay clearance climate coast Cork court tombs crannog debris deposits ditch Donegal drumlins Dublin Earlier Bronze Age Early Medieval enclosure Europe evidence excavated farmers farming flint forest fossils giant deer glacial grassland gravel ground hazel houses Illus important Ireland Irish Sea Iron Age Island Kerry Knowth lake land landscape Later Bronze Age layer limestone Littletonian Lough material Mayo Meath megalithic megalithic tombs Mesolithic Midlandian million years ago monasteries monuments mound Mount Sandel Mountains Neolithic Newgrange passage tomb peat period phase plants pollen portal tomb pottery probably produced Radiocarbon dating raised bog rath record ridge river rock sea level settlement Shannon slope soil stone suggests surface survived temperature trees uplands valley vegetation warm stage wedge tombs Wicklow wood woodland