Kildare Ireland

The soils of East Leinster are of varied types, from those of the calcareous grass-lands of West Dublin and Kildare to the barren sandy type common on the granite range. Even on the limestone stiff clays occasionally develop from the residue set free by solution of the rock, and the upper layers of the boulder-clays often contain mere clayey relics of the limestone blocks. The boulder-clays form as a rule good arable land, being loams rather than clays ; and even the slates and mica-schists of the higher foothills present a favourable contrast to the surface of the granite domes. The main mass of the Leinster Chain has, indeed, never formed habitable land.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under Geology. Tags: clays, Dublin, granite, Kildare, Leinster Chain, limestone, soils. Comments: None