Ireland – Guide with tips for your holiday

Ireland (state), (Gaelic Éire), in the Atlantic Ocean from Britain located west of the state, which is about four-fifths of the island of Ireland comprises. In the northeast bordering the Republic of Ireland in Northern Ireland. The total area is 70 273 square kilometers. The capital of the country is Dublin.

The current landscape with the multitude of lakes and hills is the result of glacial over forming during the ice ages.

The Republic of Ireland is in the Inland mostly from the Irish central lowland received, which is only in the East to the Irish Sea covers. At these natural, the mountain ranges crossed each will be closed north of the mountainous Northern Ireland. This comes from the Caledonian mountain formation and geological marks a continuation of the Scottish Highlands. In the south rises to the lowlands to Südirischen Bergland. It is part of the mountain Armorikanischen system, the part of the mountain variszischen system, also in southwest England and northern France is landschaftsprägend. In Südirischen Bergland is also the Carrauntoohil, with a height of 1 041 meters, the highest mountain in the country. South of Dublin cover the Wicklow Mountains to the southeast coast of Ireland. The vast, glaciated überformten limestone plains of the interior are numerous lakes, marshes and hills interspersed. In the north, the drumlins, roundshaped low humps, characteristic landscape elements. The coast is especially strong in the divided West; bays are far into the country inside.