Why the hills are taller than they are
Ireland is a low country. Its highest ground is a thousand metres and most of what matters to a story is a valley, a pass or a headland of a few hundred. Drawn true, the island is a plate. The slider starts at twice the real height so that shape is legible, and goes to true scale and back to flat, so you can see what the exaggeration is doing rather than take it on trust.
What the marks still mean
The same as on the flat map: one mark to a place, growing with how many stories stand there, green for a spot, brown for a townland, rust for a whole place. Height changes nothing about how well a story is placed. A rust mark on a hillside is still a story we can only put in a parish.
Ground shaded from Mapzen Terrain Tiles. Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union — EU-DEM layers. SRTM data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Base map by OpenFreeMap from OpenStreetMap data. A story’s place is the gazetteer’s best reading of the text and can be wrong.