Geography in Kerry
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Botany
Lough Derg is the lower of the two great lake-like expansions of the Shannon, the other, Lough Ree, lying further up the river. Save at its southern end, where he lake is embosomed in hills of Silurian slate, the winding shores are. formed of low-lying limestones, and the numerous islands arc composed of the same rock. Botanical interest centres on the low, uncultivated islets and reefs, and on the sloping, stony shores. Here a peculiar flora is developed, as the following list of abundant plants will show :
The breeding season, including Common Sandpipers, Redshanks, Kinged Plovers, Common Terns, Black-headed dulls, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Red-breasted Mergansers, Tufted Ducks, Shovellers, and Great Crested Grebes. These species, in greater or less number, constitute the fauna of most of the lakes of the province.