If you would like to see the County Geological Sites close to you, please browse our webviewer to explore the sites in your County or area of interest. Nineteen local authority areas are now complete and the shapefile for each site in the viewer is linked to the report for that site. You can also see the reports on our County Audit page. Ireland has a long and complicated, but infinitely interesting, geological history and sites of national and international geological importance in your area are something of which you should be proud. Geology and its expression on the landscape is part of who we are and we see it in your places names, our mythology, and our culture. The geology of Ireland has contributed to the international understanding of our science and as Ireland is such a recently glaciated country, and early work on glacial landforms took place here, the Irish language has contributed words, such as esker and drumlin, to the science of glaciology.
Remember, most County Geological Sites are on private land and you have no right to visit them without the permission of the owner.