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Fenit island Larger in the past?

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  • 16-10-2014 9:47pm
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    sheesh
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    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/smithmap.html

    Hi all Saw this old map on the above site if you look at fenit the barrow river seems to be coming out at fenit and not near poll gorom where it flows out today. I know the area reasonably well and it is almost possible that this was the case anybody know if this was the case?


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    Quaderno
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    sheesh wrote: »
    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/smithmap.html

    Hi all Saw this old map on the above site if you look at fenit the barrow river seems to be coming out at fenit and not near poll gorom where it flows out today. I know the area reasonably well and it is almost possible that this was the case anybody know if this was the case?

    This is an interesting observation, but after looking at a few other places like Inch and Valentia I think it may just be that the map is not a very accurate one, at least not by today's standards. Any changes of that scale would surely still be visible in current aerial images, but I can't find any traces of an altered coastline on the southern side of Fenit: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.278571&lon=-9.868381&z=16.2&r=0&src=msa
    And honestly, why would anyone put that much effort into changing the landscape like that?


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    sheesh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    Quaderno wrote: »
    This is an interesting observation, but after looking at a few other places like Inch and Valentia I think it may just be that the map is not a very accurate one, at least not by today's standards. Any changes of that scale would surely still be visible in current aerial images, but I can't find any traces of an altered coastline on the southern side of Fenit: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.278571&lon=-9.868381&z=16.2&r=0&src=msa
    And honestly, why would anyone put that much effort into changing the landscape like that?

    I don't think it was man made it could have occurred due to silting. or a bad storm changing the coastline. I was always intrigued that Ardfert was one of the 2 main towns in kerry (the other was dingle) I assumed that its port was the inlet near it and that it got silted up.


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