title: List of geological faults of Ireland
text: # 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 | book reference/s |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Caherconree Fault | Kerry | Q020620 | GeolDinglePen |
  | Dunquin Fault | Kerry | Q350020 | GeolDinglePen |
  | Fohernamanagh Fault | Kerry | Q500157 | GeolDinglePen |
  