Croppies' Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7
Croppies' Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7
Site Details
- Location
- Croppies' Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7
- Grid reference
- 53.3474877, -6.28593
- Fossil Name
- Brachiopods, corals, crinoids
- Fossil Type
- Various marine animals (shells and other invertebrate animals – without backbones)
- Fossil Age
- Carboniferous
- Rock Type
- Limestone
- Access Info
- The fossiliferous dark grey limestone of the 1798 Memorial, at the eastern end of Croppies' Acre Memorial Park, is open to the public.
- Fossil Info
- Brachiopod fossils resemble white and light grey smiley-faces and circles in the dark grey limestone. Crinoids appear as white and light-grey circles. Colonial corals appear as tightly bunched clusters of small white circles.
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