Found inside – Page 207In the from a spot on the southern slope of Killiney Hill , felspathic paste under the microscope , there may be there would seem ... bound the coast vary considerably ; with crystalline granite in beautiful sharply - defined in some places they are narrow and high , with prisms . ... in the Dublin thorpe the beach is sandy , and the tide comes nearly district , as they present many features of interest to up to the ... Found inside – Page 136No sandribbed invasions flung At high tide on beaches Or violent ebb sucking pebbles away . Warm death for a jellyfish ... PATRICIA MCCARTHY ( 1944 - ) Born Cornwall , educated Holy Child , Killiney , and Trinity College , Dublin . Spent the ... Found inside – Page 818Ami gardens , & c . , and a good beach for bathing . ... Victoria Castle , seat , adjoining Killiney , co . ... St. Lake high , with fixed light ( Jersey Island ) 60 ft . above high St. Mark ( ry . stas . , Tidal Basin and Custom House water and seen 10 to 12 ... Found inside – Page 161Tides . — It is high water , full and change , at Bray Head , at 10h . 45m .; springs rise 12 feet , neaps 91 feet . The coast between Bray Head and Killiney Bay , composed of shingle beach , is foul , and should not be approached nearer than ... The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileain tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. Found inside – Page 161Tides . - It is high water , full and change , at Bray Head , at 10h . ... The coast between Bray Head and Killiney Bay , composed of shingle beach ... Found inside – Page 84( Ailsa Craig is a small , cone - shaped island , 337 metres high at the entrance to the Firth of Clyde , Scotland . ) steeped in luck s ... The dotted line my father's ashplant made / On Sandymount Strand / Is something else the tide won't wash away ” ( SL , p . 62 ) . “ This is ... [ The H.E. distinction between strand and beach is evident in place names , such as Sandymount Strand and killiney Beach . ) teach a 84 ... Found inside – Page 304The triangular block causes today . ... Grass of this kind was method was first adopted by the late found growing at Killiney years ago , and Chief Engineer of the Dublin & South has since been extensively transplanted . ... With the wind slope of the shore , are rows of smaller in the right quarter , and the tide high , blocks . Found inside – Page 207In the from a spot on the southern slope of Killiney Hill , felspathic paste under the microscope , there may be there would seem ... bound the coast vary considerably ; with crystalline granite in beautiful sharply - defined in some places they are narrow and high , with prisms . ... beach is sandy , and the tide comes nearly district , as they present many features of interest to up to the sand - hills ; at Saltfleet ... Found inside – Page 100One of Killiney's three hill - tops has been included into the back garden of a house that is below the summit level . Access gates ... In lower Brittas Bay massive removals of sand and gravel from the foreshore above and below the high - tide mark have been going on for years . Diggers load ... So much material has been removed from this stretch of beach that its quality has been affected . Brittas Bay is ... Found inside – Page 175-It travels in a northerly direction with the flood tide . ... -Yes , and that fact is all the more important , because when we have a southerly wind , together with a flood tide , it makes it travel all the more . ... There is shingle in Killiney Bay ... Why was the railway constructed along the Wicklow is a kind of raised sandy beach which ... Found inside – Page 160Tides . - It is high water , full and change , at Bray Head , at 10h . ... The coast between Bray Head and Killiney Bay , composed of shingle beach ... Found inside – Page 324( 3 ) This area , on the seaward side of the island , is rocky and large rocks are found at low - tide level . Smaller rocks are found in the more protected mid - shore area but these give way to larger boulders at high - water mark . In the exposed ... Dublin Killiney is situated some eight miles south - east of the City of Dublin . Found inside – Page 177The best plant found up to date is sea couch-grass which the author found growing on the beach at Killiney some years ago and ... of trouble from time to time as they are very steep and the sea breaks heavily on them in certain combinations of wind and tide. ... fact that it very high and is fed- entirely by submerged springs. Found inside – Page 45The female stopped , and looked carnestly at Clontarf is a little village on the sea - shore , the cottage , for a few ... Killiney , and further still behind them , the The figure was tall , and , even amid the Wicklow mountains repose upon the sky ; the ... The tide was near Charles : she knew not what to fear ; a its height , and the spray was dashed high thousand thoughts were in that moment . upon the rocks . Found inside – Page 199... characteristic of the S. portion of the strands of Wicklow and Killiney Bays , always occurring in connexion with the “ counter - tides . ” They are best developed during directly on - shore gales from the E. If formed during the rise of the spring tides , each ... direction to the “ flow - tide ” current , or they may be carried forward by the sole agency of the tidal current , or by the latter ... Extraordinary high tides , unaccompanied with wind , seem to do little or no damage on an open seaboard . Found inside – Page 404Killiney. hills. and. of. Bray. Head . The coast - line does not run directly north and south , but curves into a succession of beautiful bays , of which the ... The north - eastern maritime suburbs are Clontarf and Dollymount , which stretch along the northern shore of the harbour of Dublin . ... At high - water the views are beautiful , at ebb - tide a large expanse of unsightly mud and sandbanks is laid bare . Found inside – Page 597Among the other below the tidal alluvium at the Southampton new dock papers were one by ... and notably in the Appalachians , strata glacial sea - beach at Bridlington gave proof of some had been forced up from a depth greater than ... the majority of earthquakes coincide with a high baro - Gasteropoda , Crustacea , and Conchifera from the Demeter , and that ... and that the Killiney gravels , and the marls , clays , and Some time ago Lord Crawford offered to present to Scotland brick ... Found inside – Page 345KILLINEY BAY . Lo ! behold the sleepy wave Whispering die along the shore , – Zephyr from his western cave With his faint breath ruffle ... Let us keep the beach away , While with skilful hands you guide The helm through the dashing sprayThrough the dark and swelling tide . High above , the headlands frown , And from their cloudy seats look down :Bent beneath my sounding oar Thro ' the waters I will ... Found inside – Page 404in the picturesque ramparts of the Killiney hills and of Bray Head . The coast ... At high - water the views are beautiful , at ebb - tide a large expanse of unsightly mud and sandbanks is laid bare . ... The roar of the sea breaking on the beach in ... Found inside – Page 32The eye, travelling down the further shore of the bay, is arrested by the long harbour ... more to the left, the hills about Killiney and Dalkey Island; ... Found inside – Page 29From Rush to Baldoyle the coast consists of stretches of sandy beach backed up by tidal estuaries at Rogerstown and ... To the south of the bay the twin granite hills of Dalkey and Killiney , though rising steeply to almost 500 ft . , have no ... Found inside – Page 32The eye , travelling down the further shore of the bay , is arrested by the ... the hills about Killiney and Dalkey Island ; beyond them , Bray Head rises ... Found inside – Page 199... characteristic of the S. portion of the strands of Wicklow and Killiney Bays , always occurring in connexion with the " counter - tides . " They are best developed during directly on - shore gales from the E. If formed during the rise of the spring tides , each ... direction to the “ flow - tide ” current , or they may be carried forward by the sole agency of the tidal current , or by the latter ... Extraordinary high tides , unaccompanied with wind , seem to do little or no damage on an open seaboard . Found inside – Page 88is only 8 or 9 feet at high water springs , is fit only for small coasters , which resort here with coals , and to embark pit timber and the ores raised in the neighbourhood . ... Off the southern extremity of the head at the distance of a cable from the shore , is Cable rock , uncovered at half tide , with a few ... 52 ; scale , m = 6.7 inches , The coast between Bray and Killiney bay , composed of 88 [ CHAP , IV . Found insideLoosely based on the Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners through an entire day in 1904. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor. Found inside – Page 1025 010 Races when one day each year in either June , July or August depending on the tides , the beach becomes a race course . ... Charming little resort of white stuccoed and stone villas set in woodlands running up the eastern slopes of Killiney Hill . ... Two miles west is the 12thC - 14thC church of St Doulagh ; built on the site of the saint's 7thC anchorite cell , it has a high pitched stone roof and 14thC ... Found inside – Page 111VIEW OF DYMCHURCH SHORE , SHOWING EMBEDDED CASE GROYNES AND SEAWALL PROTECTED BY BEACH ... Bay , or for places like Glenbeigh or Killiney , where no adequate pro . tection of any kind exists ; for all these types of shores and ... tons of beach having accumulated , and the cliffs , which were formerly torn down by , overy high tide , being now practically untouched by the waves . Found insideThis is the first major study of the life and times of John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, who for more than three decades, from 1940 to 1972, dominated political and social and religious developments in Ireland. Found inside – Page 128storm waves to stop the travelling of the beach ; ( 2 ) if there are continuous winds that accelerate the travelling of a beach it ... rules in regard to the beaches between Dalkey Island and Carnsore ; we will now refer more especially to Killiney Bay ... are four on - shore currents , which principally cause the travelling and cutting out of the beaches :-( 1 ) A current which ... tide ” that runs south along the beach to Bray ; ( 3 ) a “ half counter - tide , ” that sets in a few hours before high - water ... Found inside – Page 404in the picturesque ramparts of the Killiney hills and of Bray Head . ... The north - eastern maritime suburbs are Clontarf and Dollymount , which stretch along the northern shore of the harbour of Dublin . ... At high - water the views are beautiful , at ebb - tide a large expanse of unsightly mud and sandbanks is laid bare . Found inside – Page 175-It travels in a northerly direction with the flood tide . 29832. Is that in the direction of the prevailing wind ? -Yes , and that fact is all the more important , because when we have a southerly wind , together with a flood tide , it makes it ... There is shingle in Killiney Bay and there is shingle at ... I Wicklow is a kind of raised sandy beach which has a think , perhaps , cheapness . marsh behind it , the marsh being ... Found inside – Page 207Beryl has also been found in the granite of Killiney , and specimens are shown in the Dublin Museums , though I have never succeeded ... The sand - hills which bound the coast vary considerably ; in some places they are narrow and high , with steep slopes of loose sand ... At Mablethorpe the beach is sandy , and the tide comes nearly up to the sand - hills ; at Saltsleet , however , a village a little farther ... Found inside – Page 45The female stopped , and looked earnestly at Clontarf is a little village on the sea - shore , the cottage , for a few ... Killiney , and further still behind them , the The figure was tall , and , even amid the Wicklow mountains repose upon the sky ; the ... The tide was near Charles : she knew not what to fear ; a its height , and the spray was dashed high thousand thoughts were in that moment . upon the rocks . Found inside – Page 89From my seat I had a good side view of the sea , close and at high tide nearly on the same level as the court , and could hear the patter and tear of its wavelets on the beach , like the one at Killiney , as I liked to imagine , though the sand was ... Found inside – Page 48Dr. Thomas Oxley , the government surgeon and an ardent nutmeg planter , moved to Killiney in 1837 , and was followed by Charles Carnie at ... The main streets frequently flooded at high tide and were lit by feeble coconut oil lamps . The town was plagued by stray dogs , and dead ponies were left to rot on the beach . Found insideIt is a pleasant stroll along the beach on the hard sand at low tide. When the tide is high, enjoy the spectacle of breaking waves. This volume is the result of an initiative of the Commission on the Coastal Environment of the International Geographical Union. Found inside – Page 45The female stopped , and looked carnestly at Clontars is a little village on the sea - shore , the cottage , for a few ... Killiney , and further still behind them , the The figure was tall , and , even amid the Wicklow mountains repose upon the sky ; the ... The tide was near Charles : she knew not what to fear ; a its height , and the spray was dashed high thousand thoughts were in that moment . upon the rocks . Found inside – Page 23239 together with details of spring tides , geological formations and possible military routes inland from the beaches . Yet another series of pictures was published in 1942 by the Luftwaffe High Command in Berlin . ... attention to possible invasion beaches ; thus the Bray photograph included the sloping strand below Killiney Hill and the picture of Dublin Bay showed the sands at low tide off Sandymount . Found inside – Page 33Killiney beach was considered to be one of the most strategic places for a landing and the government established a large ... 1864 stated that this tower had been found to be shaky and unsafe having been sapped by the seas and high tides . Found inside – Page 111On the north side of the city lies Bull Island , created over the years by the action of the tides and offering an almost 3 - km- ( 2 - mi- ) long stretch of fine sand . ... The main beach for swimming on the southside of the city is situated at Killiney , 13 km ( 8 mi ) south side of the city center ... trends ; a disproportionately Food from Ireland . high number of recommended restaurants can be described as French . 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