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Kildare Village

Kildare Village

Site Details

Location
Kildare Village
Grid reference
53.155556, -6.917639
Fossil Name
Brachiopods, corals, crinoids, orthocones
Fossil Type
Various marine animals (shells and other invertebrate animals – without backbones)
Fossil Age
Carboniferous
Rock Type
Limestone
Access Info
Easily accessible from the footpath. Public car park immediately adjacent to site.
Fossil Info
The paving stones throughout Kildare Village are extremely fossiliferous, with abundant colonial and solitary corals, brachiopods, crinoids, and rare orthocones

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Ireland's Fossil Heritage

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, T23 TK30,

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