Galway Ireland

Taken as a whole, the coast of Ireland is much in- dented, with some tolerably large inlets and innumerable small bays, points and islets. The Galway coast is low and exceedingly broken, with innumerable minor sinuosities and some large bays.

On the west coast mostly very old and hard rocks front the Atlantic, and to their presence there as an effectual breakwater is largely due the fact that Ireland exists at all. Wherever the more soluble and more easily denuded limestone forms the coast, the sea has penetrated for some distance. Galway (Self Catering, Galway, Ireland) Bay has low limestone at its head. The Aran Islands in Galway (Accommodation, Galway, Ireland) Bay are reefs of limestone corresponding to the rocks of North Clare, and point to the extent to which this rock has yielded to the forces of denudation.

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