Kilcummin Head
Kilcummin Head
Site Details
- Location
- Kilcummin Head
- Grid reference
- 54.2804, -9.2265
- Fossil Name
- Olivellites, Trace fossils (other)
- Fossil Type
- Trace fossil (burrow)
- Fossil Age
- Carboniferous
- Rock Type
- Sandstone
- Access Info
- Upright flat stones close to the Nawascape sculpture and thinly-bedded rock layers along the cliff edge.
- Fossil Info
- The flat upright stones near the sculpture contain abundant fossil burrows - Olivellites. The thinnly bedded sandstones along the cliff edge preserve some spectacular trace fossils, visible as large straight to curving and branching ridges in the rocks, about as thick as your finger. The trace fossils are best seen on the base of beds.
