Around the island

The island of Ireland is low in the middle and high on the outside.
Ireland is full of beautiful laikes and rivers. The Shannon is
its longest river. It is 385 km. long. Other important
rivers an Laugh Lee Laugh berg.
Most of mountains are near the sea. The highest is
Cana In tuohill (1040).
There one hundreds of small islands in the sea
around Ireland.
Life has changed very little there, in a hundred years.
Much of the north and west of Ireland is very
beautiful.
There are hundreds of flowers in the green fields.
The middle and east of Ireland are very different is a
farming country, and Irish milk and meat is some of
the best in the world.
All Ireland important cities: Dublin, Belfast, Londonderry, Galway, Cork and Waterford.

The higher mountains in Ireland areErrigal ( 752 m. ) in Donegal and Croagh Patrick (785 m.) in Mayo the twelve Bens in Galway.

The Other mountains are penetrated by deep glacially modified valleys of which the best known is Glendalogh in Country Wicklaw.
The famous Upper Lake of Killarney nestles in the eastern slopes of this range.
The valleys separate the western extension of these mountains.
The heart of country is a limestone.
It also extends westward to reach the Atlantic Ocean along the Shannon Estuary, in Galway Bay.

The long river in Ireland is the Shannon, 340 km. in length. In the curse this river broaden attractive lakes. Ireland earliest hydro-electric power Shane.
The others rivers and valleys:
The Lee and the Backwater.

The relative warn ocean waters of the North Atlantic Drift.
Valencia in the extreme south- west, in January temperature of 7 ºC and July temperature of 15 º C.
Dublin are 4,5 ºC in January and 15,5 º C in July.
Extremely high or low temperatures are virtually unknown.

The landscape is dominated by forms and enclosed fields. They are used for cattle and sheep. The land belongs to the farmers who work it this is since the nineteenth century.
There aren't huge farms, they are small and medium size.
Although the agriculture has decreased, it is still the main source of the Ireland economy.
The agriculture is predominated by pastoral farming and with some arable crops.

The fish production has fluctuated since 1960s.

Ireland has always had a lot of people moving across the country towards Europe. Each group of immigrants has given something to the Ireland culture.

The population was 8.2 million in 1841 and most of them lived in rural areas and after the famine in 1846 the population started to decrease and in 1930 it was only half.