The Kildare Inlier

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I.Introduction. The Geological Survey of Ireland, in 1858, published a memoir describing the geology of the Kildare Hills and neighbouring country. In this memoir are given lists of fossils from the limestone and from an underlying ash-bed, attention is drawn to the resemblance which some of the igneous rocks bear to those of Lambay Island, and reference is made to the presence of a northand-south fault dividing the inlier into two portions. In 1877 Messrs. Harkness and Nicholson, in their paper on the Strata between the Borrowdale Series and,Coniston Flags,’ give some account of the Kildare rocks. They mention that the limestone is in the direct line of strike of contemporaneous beds at Portraine, near Dublin, and also of the Coniston Limestone of the Lake District. Moreover they judge from the strike of the Kildare limestone that it is faulted against the rocks east of it, and note that the beds west of the north-and-south fault above mentioned are entirely dissimilar to those lying east of it. The area has been repeatedly referred to by Mr. J. E. Marr in his various papers on the Coniston Limestone Series of the Lake District. In them he draws special attention to the resemblance between the Keisley Limestone and that of the Chair of Kildare. II. General. Description of the Area. The Carboniferous limestone to the south-west of Dublin has been thrown into a series of gentle undulations, and to the north and north-west of the town of Kildare the crest of one

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