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Bits of geography information you remember from primary scho

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    #32
    allthedoyles
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    We used to follow the Irish Ships around the world .

    Irish Shipping was a Irish-government owned shipping company and they had about 20 deep-sea ships , all named after trees :

    Irish Cedar
    Irish Larch
    Irish Spruce
    Irish Elm etc

    that was in 5th / 6th class


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    #33
    Asarlai
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Whatever happened the ozone layer anyway? Is it solved? :confused:

    Overheard on Killiney beach during a sunnier-than-normal summer sometime in the 1990's

    "Sure, they should have poked that hole in the ozone layer years ago."


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    #34
    Arbitrary
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    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Don't follow the geography teacher's advice to sit ordinary level

    In my case. Though I can understand why he recommended it, I'm pretty sure I still hold the record for the most days missed in a year in the history of the school. Poll a' Phúca you!


    Erosion is killer, the perpetual war of attrition between earth, rock, sea and wind still rages on today.


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    #35
    Jawgap
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    Glaciation.....

    U-shaped and hanging valleys
    Truncated spurs
    Eskers
    Moraines
    Paternoster lakes
    cooms
    Boulder clay
    Glacial polish

    ........and fvckin' Drumlins - because they're bast@rds to cycle up!


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    #36
    SimonTemplar
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    Vertical erosion


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    #37
    Asarlai
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    Antrim
    Armagh
    Derry
    Down
    Tyrone

    Why do I remember these five, but I can't figure out where Fermanagh fits into this?

    Or does it.....?


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    #38
    Senna
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    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    There was a saying to remember which was which, can't remember it now, something about stalagmites might touch etc etc

    We learned the county registration plates when the new system came in, the was probably geography class


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    #39
    Dr Turk Turkelton
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    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Tights always come down...(stalactites)
    Taught by a priest!


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    Meangadh
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    I think a lot of people here are recalling what they learned in secondary school geography and not primary school.

    Although funnily enough, there is little cross-over between the two which I think is a shame. There is nowhere near enough locational geography in secondary school. Students leave with A1s in Geography but haven't a clue where many countries even are. Way too much emphasis on physical geography (plate tectonics, weather systems etc).

    I much prefer cultural and economic geography and the sociology that surrounds them. And I think that information is far more useful in life than how a glacier erodes.


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    #41
    The Peanut
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    All the counties off by heart. The major towns in each county. All the rivers. All the mountains. All the lakes. Used to know the 32 counties off by heart from biggest to smallest. Still amazed when people can't name counties or, worse still, recognise them on a map.

    It was drilled into us.


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    #42
    Aubrey loves Joe
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    Double d is not only a cup size. It also stands for drowned drumlins


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    #43
    Meangadh
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    Asarlai wrote: »
    Antrim
    Armagh
    Derry
    Down
    Tyrone

    Why do I remember these five, but I can't figure out where Fermanagh fits into this?

    Or does it.....?

    Yeah it does. "FAT DAD" is what people use to remember the 6 counties not in the Republic.

    Fermanagh Armagh Tyrone Derry Antrim Down


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    #44
    Bruthal
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    Senna wrote: »
    There was a saying to remember which was which, can't remember it now, something about stalagmites might touch etc etc
    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    Tights always come down...(stalactites)
    Taught by a priest!

    Stalagmites came up from the ground
    Stalactites came down from the ceiling


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    mikemac1
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    Asarlai wrote: »
    The Barrow, the Nore, and the Suir

    Pffft

    They don't compare to the Suck, the Inney and the Brosna


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    Asarlai
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    The river Shannon starts in Cavan and flows into the sea at Limerick.

    Except the word 'start' wasn't the word used


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    cml387
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    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    I also noticed an odd feature of geography teaching in school from years ago.
    Many scholars could identify the capitals of remote South American countries and name those countries export and know their climate. But wouldn't have a clue where Coventry, Leicester or Nothampton were


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    #48
    Baggy Trousers
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    Asarlai wrote: »
    The river Shannon starts in Cavan and flows into the sea at Limerick.

    Except the word 'start' wasn't the word used

    It rises in Cavan.


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    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Our geography teacher gave us the following memory aid as 12/13 year olds:

    "When the mites go up, the tites come down."

    He meant 'mites' as in hands, and 'tites' as in pantyhose.

    It was a useful memory aid, but cemented his reputation in my book as a creepy bastard.


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    #50
    Baggy Trousers
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    Sugar Beet!


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    #51
    mikemac1
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    *raises hand*

    Sugar beet factories

    Gone now though :(

    beaten to it, damn you baggy trousers!!


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    #52
    FluffyAngel
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    Ireland would sink without a cork in it....


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    #53
    Daenarys
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    Lucyfur wrote: »
    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Same!! Feckin igneous & sedimentary rocks and cirrus & cumulus clouds :D


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    #54
    Bruthal
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    stankratz wrote: »
    Our geography teacher gave us the following memory aid as 12/13 year olds:

    "When the mites go up, the tites come down."

    He meant 'mites' as in hands, and 'tites' as in pantyhose.

    It was a useful memory aid, but cemented his reputation in my book as a creepy bastard.

    Bow holes must have been interesting in his class.


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    #55
    cml387
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    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    Sugar Beet!

    Correct.

    The sugar factories always had a special little symbol. Each major town had it's own little symbol. Mullingar had a small packet of cigarettes, indicating a tobacco factory (which is still there nearly 50 years later:)).


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    Meangadh
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    I remember doing the meanings of placenames, as in anything with "Cill" in it meant it had a church and that kind of thing. Always found it interesting, it mixed geography with history and Irish so it was a nice mix.


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    #57
    ronnie3585
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    Clints and grikes.

    Karst landscape.


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    #58
    Asarlai
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    For some reason, I'm thinking "sugar"...??


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    #59
    coolhull
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    Pollaphouca means the ''Ghost's Hole''


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    #60
    The Peanut
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    Meangadh wrote: »
    I remember doing the meanings of placenames, as in anything with "Cill" in it meant it had a church and that kind of thing. Always found it interesting, it mixed geography with history and Irish so it was a nice mix.

    Very good; Cill, Lis, Dun, Rath, all coming back to me.

    Had a very good geography teacher who also taught us about Welsh placenames. Aber was mouth of a river, Afon was river and Llan was church.

    Amazing how much you would retain.


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    looksee
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    Transhumance. Something to do with animals going up and down mountains in Switzerland.

    Irish Primary geography - the map on the back of the copies my kids used, map of europe, it was the most badly drawn map you could imagine and had several countries wrong.


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