Ceann Sraithe(ケアン・スラーまたは ストラヘ・ヘッド)に設置された看板。 Ceann Sraitheはゲール語で「草地の岬(Headland of the Strand)」を意味し、 アイルランド語圏のケリー県の西端に位置。
「Welcome to Ceann Sraithe Welcome to Ceann Sratha where seabirds such as puffins and cormorants as well as whales and sharks can sometimes be seen. Cast an eye towards Sybil Head (1) – a major location (2016) for Star Wars VIII. The promontory is noted for its Napoleonic watch tower and Ferriter's Castle or Fort (2) is near at hand. The famed 'Three Sisters' (3, 4 & 5) are to the North and beyond them the headland at Baile Dháith (6) situated at the mouth of Smerwick Harbour.」
「In 1837 the Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz said for the first
time, that ice formerly covered much of Northern Europe. The
first evidence in Ireland for the ice Age was discovered in 1848
at Pedler’s Lake by John Ball (1818–89), a Dublin-born civil
servant and mountaineer.」
【1837年、スイスの地質学者ルイ・アガシーが初めて、
かつて氷が北ヨーロッパの大部分を覆っていたと述べました。
アイルランドにおける氷河時代の最初の証拠は、1848年に
ペドラーズ湖でジョン・ボール(1818–1889)によって発見されました。
彼はダブリン生まれの官僚であり登山家でもありました。】
「During the Ordovician and Silurian Ireland was south of the equator; and under an ocean between two continents. Mud and sand deposited into it eventually became the rocks seen near Annascaul. In the Silurian, volcanic islands erupted lavas and ash, now found at Clogher Head. Muddy sediments trapped animals preserved as fossils near Dún Chaoin and on Caherconree Mountain. Younger sandy sediments produced the sandstones near An Daingean and Slea Head.
By the Devonian, the ocean had disappeared, forming a large continent with deserts. The sand formed Old Red Sandstone, the backbone of the Slieve Mish Mountains, while coarser sediments produced rocks called conglomerates, seen now at Lough Slat and at Inch.
At the beginning of the Carboniferous period the land was flooded by shallow tropical seas where shellfish and corals thrived. These are preserved in the limestones on the Magharees.
During the last 2 million years to 10,000 years ago, ice on mountainsides formed depressions called corries many of which now contain lakes. Glaciers moved downslope along river valleys, and when they melted boulder clay containing many different rock types was deposited.」