Abstract
This paper concisely reviews the occurrence and type of clay minerals in Ireland. Working back through time, the occurrences include: soils; Quaternary glacial, lacustrine and alluvial sedi ments; residual deposits formed during Tertiary and earlier weathering; Tertiary clays; fillings within karstic depressions; the matrix of the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone; shales, fire-clays and bentonites of Devonian and Carboniferous age; and Lower Palaeozoic shales, metabentonites and altered basalts.
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