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The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
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  [U 17.1974; FW 198.28 & 373.05] The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair)
  
  
CONTENTS 2009
   1  Glasgow IASIL 2009@University of Glasgow
   2  Glasgow (Glaschu) and Joyce
   3  Glasgow (Glaschu): miscellanea
   4  Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
   5  New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
   6  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean)
   7  Oban (An t-Oban)
   8  Kilchurn Castle, Argyll and Bute
   9  Inveraray Castle (Caisteal Inbhir Aora), Argyll and Bute
  10  Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann), the Central Highlands
  11  Loch Lochy (Loch Lochaidh) and Loch Oich (Loch Omhaich) of the Caledonian Canal
  12  Loch Ness (Loch Nis) of the Caledonian Canal
  13  Inverness (Inbhir Nis)
  14  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
  15  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
  16  Moneygall (Muine Gall), County Offaly
  17  Limerick (Luimneach)
  18  The Burren (Boireann), County Clare
  19  Doolin (Dulainn), County Clare
  20  The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
  21  Connemara (Conamara)
  22  London and Joyce
  23  London: miscellanea
  24  Bognor Regis, West Sussex
  25  Sidlesham, West Sussex
  26  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare, Ireland
4 August, 2009


  The Cliffs of Moher (Irish: Aillte an Mhothair, lit. cliffs of the ruin, also known as the Cliffs of Mohair) are located in the parish of Liscannor at the south-western edge of the Burren area near Doolin, which is located in County Clare, Ireland.  The cliffs rise 120 meters (394 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head (Irish: Ceann na Cailleach), and reach their maximum height of 214 meters (702 ft) just north of O'Brien's Tower, eight kilometers away.  The cliffs boast one of Ireland's most spectacular views.  On a clear day the Aran Islands are visible in Galway Bay, as are the valleys and hills of Connemara.
  O'Brien's Tower is a round stone tower at the approximate midpoint of the cliffs.  It was built in 1835 by Sir Cornelius O'Brien, a descendant of Ireland's High King Brian Boru, in order to impress female visitors.  From atop that watchtower, one can view the Aran Islands and Galway Bay, the Maum Turk Mountains and the Twelve Pins to the north in Connemara, and Loop Head to the south.
  The cliffs consist mainly of beds of Namurian shale and sandstone, with the oldest rocks being found at the bottom of the cliffs. It is possible to see 300 million year old river channels cutting through the base of the cliffs.  There are many animals living on the cliffs.  Most of these are birds, with an estimated 30,000 birds from 29 species.  These include the noted Atlantic Puffins, which live in large colonies at isolated parts of the cliffs and on the small Goat Island.  Also present are hawks, gulls, guillemots, shags, ravens and choughs.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  

 
  There are some references to the Cliffs of Moher in Joyce's works:
  
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  
  -- These questions are very profound, Mr Dedalus, said the dean.  It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up.  Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.  (P V, p.191)
  
  
Ulysses

  
  17.1968.  What considerations rendered departure desirable?
  
  17.1969.  The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as
  17.1970.  represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
  17.1971.  special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and
  17.1972.  hachures.
  
  
  17.1973.  In Ireland?
  
  17.1974.  The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with
  17.1975.  submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort
  17.1976.  Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of
  17.1977.  royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in
  17.1978.  Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.
  
  
Finnegans Wake

  
  198.24:  wubbling up on an osiery chair, with a meusic before her all
  198.25:  cunniform letters, pretending to ribble a reedy derg on a fiddle
  198.26:  she bogans without a band on?  Sure she can't fiddan a dee, with
  198.27:  bow or abandon!  Sure, she can't!  Tista suck.  Well, I never now
  198.28:  heard the like of that!  Tell me moher.  Tell me moatst.  Well, old
  198.29:  Humber was as glommen as grampus, with the tares at his thor
  
  373.04:  Hide! Seek!  And the last with the sailalloyd donggie he was
  373.05:  berthed on the Moherboher to the Washte and they were all try-
  373.06:  ing to and baffling with the walters of, hoompsydoompsy walters
  373.07:  of.  High!  Sink!  High!  Sink!  Highohigh!  Sinkasink!
  
  

  
Extracted from Louis O. Mink's A "Finnegans Wake" Gazetteer
(Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978), p.408

  
  
MOHER, CLIFFS OF.  Famous Atlantic cliffs, Co Clare, N of Liscannor Bay.  At the S end is Hag's Head; theme is no "Moher Head."
  
  373.05  he was berthed on the Mohemboher to the Washte
  ?426.08  broke down on the mooherhead
  
  

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 (Tuesday 4 August) Visitor Centre of the Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) A harper of The Cliffs of Moher.  I met him here for the first time in 1999.  He has been playing the same beautiful tunes in the same place.  Nothing has changed except his graying hair.
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 (Tuesday 4 August) A harper of The Cliffs of Moher.  I met him here for the first time in 1999.
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 (Tuesday 4 August) O'Brien's Tower at the approximate midpoint of the cliff.  It was built in 1835 by Sir Cornelius O'Brien, a descendant of Ireland's High King Brian Boru.
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 (Tuesday 4 August) O'Brien's Tower, The Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) [U 17.1974; FW 198.28 & 373.05] Me at The Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) [U 17.1974; FW 198.28 & 373.05] The Great Sea Stack (Branaunmore), the Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) [U 17.1974; FW 198.28 & 373.05] The Cliffs of Moher, viewed from Hags Head Path
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 (Tuesday 4 August) Hags Head Path, the Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) A view from Hags Head Path, the Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) A view from Hags Head Path, the Cliffs of Moher
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 (Tuesday 4 August) A view from Hags Head Path, the Cliffs of Moher




        


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