List of geological faults of Ireland

This is a list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of Ireland. Those of Northern Ireland are listed elsewhere.

Terminology

See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in brief, the main types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults.

Key to table

• Column 1 indicates the name of the fault. Note that different authors may deploy different names for one and the same feature, or a part of a feature. Conversely the same name may be applied to two different features, particularly in the case of smaller faults with a wide geographic separation.
• Column 2 indicates the county in which the fault occurs. Some traverse two or more counties of course.
• Column 3 indicates the Irish grid reference for the approximate midpoint of the fault (as mapped). Note that the mapped extent of a fault may not correspond to its actual extent.
• Column 4 indicates on which sheet of the Geological Survey of Ireland's 1:50,000 scale geological map series of Ireland, the fault is shown and named (either on map/s or cross-section/s or both).
• Column 5 indicates a selection of publications in which references to the fault may be found. See references section for full details of publication.

Tabulated list of faults

Sortable table of faults

Fault name	County	grid ref	GSI map sheet	book reference/s
Caherconree Fault	Kerry	Q020620		GeolDinglePen
Dunquin Fault	Kerry	Q350020		GeolDinglePen
Fohernamanagh Fault	Kerry	Q500157		GeolDinglePen

References

• GeolDinglePen = Higgs, K. and Williams, B. 2018 Geology of the Dingle Peninsula, 2018 (guide and 1:50,000 scale geological map)

See also

• List of geological faults of Northern Ireland