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A fine Royal Plate from the Lawrence Collection featuring a geological oddity near Kenmare in Co. Kerry. “Green Stone on Lime” is the title which probably means that it is an erratic dating from the last ice age? Is it still there intact, or has the pollution and the increased movement of people toppled what thousands of years could not do?
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It is still outstanding in its field! And well done, that derangedlemur and that beachcomber australia, for finding this scientific description of our mighty stone wonder in The Irish Naturalist, September 1898, which would have been published around the time this photo was taken: “Carrigacappeen, a very remarkable erratic of Old Red grit, standing on a 6-foot pillar of Carboniferous Limestone, a striking example of denudation by solution since the Glacial Epoch”. We thank you, lemur and beachcomber, our very own "remarkable erratics"!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_04359
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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+++ UPDATE +++
It is still outstanding in its field! And well done, that derangedlemur and that beachcomber australia, for finding this scientific description of our mighty stone wonder in The Irish Naturalist, September 1898, which would have been published around the time this photo was taken: “Carrigacappeen, a very remarkable erratic of Old Red grit, standing on a 6-foot pillar of Carboniferous Limestone, a striking example of denudation by solution since the Glacial Epoch”. We thank you, lemur and beachcomber, our very own "remarkable erratics"!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_04359
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Views: 9866
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derangedlemur
www.thekingdomring.ie/blog-1/tag/Ring-of-Kerry
derangedlemur
OSI: bit.ly/36PW3q4
derangedlemur
There are other pictures of it on flickr but I think there'd be demarcation issues that would bring out the union if I linked to one.
BeachcomberAustralia
From The Lemur's link above - "The myth goes of mighty giants on either side of the Roughty river throwing boulders at each other. One landed on Gearran Bán where Carrigacappeen lies, and the other on Knockeirka Hill where Cloghvorragh (Cloughrock) fell." https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6708024549/
BeachcomberAustralia
Demarcation be damned! In 2010 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddyl/, who says ground to top is about three metres - https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddyl/4502519074/
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Well it was you I thought would have the shop stewards out if I linked it. Are you not going to point out the occasional amazingness of flickr?
Foxglove
that is one very large fossilised mushroom !!
BeachcomberAustralia
Flickr is sometimes amazing. The https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] is always amazing!
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove And the little man also looks like a fun guy!
BeachcomberAustralia
That Lemur link also has an image of 'The Irish Naturalist' Vol. VII, page 228, dated September 1898. Very similar photos to these Lawrence ones, and a detailed explanation of the geology. See - archive.org/details/irishnaturalist07roya/page/n269/mode/2up "... Elsewhere, perched blocks of great size stand on the hillside, lasting monuments of the Glacial Epoch. Two of the finest of these were visited - Cloghvorragh, a huge block of limestone of 400 tons weight, resting on the Old Red Sandstone hill of Knockeirka at an elevation of 250 feet; and Carrigacappeen, a very remarkable erratic of Old Red grit, standing on a 6-foot pillar of Carboniferous Limestone, a striking example of denudation by solution since the Glacial Epoch."
oaktree_brian_1976
that's the weirdest thing you'll see today! very cool
JeromeG111
Great shot
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia fun guy, I get it now!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Mutual admiration Friday!!
subarcticmike
thank you for sharing the "old grit" boulder atop the "lime" limestone pedestal with the Earth Science Teaching Resource group.
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland We're great! Do you want to be in our gang?
Trešnja
Nice one 📷 Subtitle is very funny😄
Galilla S
I'd say "Impatiently waiting for the photographer to snap the shot!" I wouldn't want to be standing under that baby.
hliguy
Looking up, Malcolm Breezy felt a great sense of accomplishment. After all, he'd lifted that boulder without so much as a ripped stitch in his clothing. However, he decided that when he got back home he would call a hernia specialist.