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IRELAND’S GEOGRAPHY & LANDSCAPE

Educational Video Destination Ireland. A tour of Ireland’s geography and history.

ABOVE: The Great Sugar Loaf in County Wicklow is composed of Cambrian quartzite, in contrast to the rounded mountains to the west, which are made of Devonian granite. Popularly mistaken for a volcano, it is in fact an erosion-resistant, metamorphosed sedimentary deposit from the deep sea. 12