Waters, C.N.; Somerville, I.D.. 2011 South Munster Basin. In: Waters, Colin, (ed.) A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society of London, 153-155.
South of the platform carbonate successions of South Central Ireland (Chapter 22), the
South Munster Basin of southern Ireland (Fig. 23.1) is dominated by deeper water
terrigenous sedimentary rocks comparable to those present in the Culm Basin of southwest
England (Chapter 4). The basin is divided into a western Bantry Sub-basin and eastern
Kinsale Sub-basin, separated by the Glandore High upon which an extremely attenuated
succession developed (Naylor et al. 1989).
The South Munster Basin was affected by four distinct phases (Naylor et al. 1989). During
the Late Devonian to early Courceyan, subsidence rates in both sub-basins were rapid and
associated with deposition of relatively shallow marine sand and mud. During the
Courceyan there was a reduction in both influx of sand and rates of basin subsidence, but
with a net deepening of the basin. During the late Courceyan to Brigantian the basin
became starved of sediment. During the Namurian, a renewed influx of sand resulted in the
filling of the basin.
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