Site Details

Location

City Hall Dame Street

Grid reference

53.34404, -6.26734

Fossil Name

Bivalves

Fossil Type

Marine animals (shells, invertebrate animals – without backbones)

Fossil Age

Jurassic

Rock Type

Limestone

Access Info

Building stones of the walls and ornamental features outside City Hall on Dame Street, also in the Dublin corporation buildings next door

Fossil Info

Grey limestone with grey - white bivalve fossils, these weather out proud and easy to spot - they appear as fragments or intact shells similar to that of an oyster