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Thread #77631 Message #2281204
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
06-Mar-08 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cliffs of Dooneen. WHERE?
Subject: RE: Origins: Cliffs of Dooneen. WHERE?
Wanna have some fun?
First, download Google Earth onto your computer if you don't have it already. (but doesn't work for dial-up.)
I went to my Google Earth and told it to search for Dooneen County Kerry Ireland. It went to a town near the coast in SW Ireland. Go west down the river valley past Croaghaun and you will come to the coast.
Put your mouse on the north arrow and swing the whole picture so that the coast is on the bottom. Then put your mouse on the tilt bar and tilt the picture back. You will see the cliffs. To the south of Croaghaun is an eroded cove with a particularly spectactular plunge.
It is interesting to note the long thin fields along the river - a medieval landscape.
There's a very dark area south of Croaghaun with a loop road in it. Is that a peat-digging area?
I suggest that adherants of all the different sites proposed here look them up in Google Earth. It's fun.