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Brandon Mountain
Brandon Mountain, on the Dingle peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
Brandon Mountain
mountain, Ireland
Brandon Mountain, mountain on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. It is 3,127 feet (953 metres) high. The mountains of the western part of the peninsula are formed of rock strata known to geologists as the Dingle beds, and north of the town of Dingle they form the Brandon rangeāa high craggy ridge, of which Brandon Mountain is the highest pointāwhich ends in cliffs at Brandon Head. The cliffs have been much modified by landslides.
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