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elevation, in regularly receding terraced flights, present a vast amphitheatrical outline. The disjointed blocks, composing the surface of this immense concavity, though not deposited with all the precision of the trap rocks, are laid generally in horizontal lines, giving to the whole, at a distance, a regular and formal character.
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A maritime barony of County Clare, Munster. It is bounded, on the north, by Galway bay; on the east, by County Galway and the barony of
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156:53°04′06″N
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562:Feenagh
471:9 March
454:Sources
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331:Kilheny
294:Ptolemy
288:History
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188:Ireland
184:Country
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