Lough O’Flynn
Lough O’Flynn
Site Details
- Location
- Lough O’Flynn
- Grid reference
- 53.76653279, -8.624953
- Fossil Name
- Corals
- Fossil Type
- Marine animals (shells, invertebrate animals – without backbones)
- Fossil Age
- Carboniferous
- Rock Type
- Limestone
- Access Info
- There is a small car park located a short walk away at Lough O’Flynn recreation area. Follow the flat, paved path to the lake shore. To your left, along the walkway south, abundant solitary and colonial corals can be found in the limestone cobbles and boulders.
- Fossil Info
- Well preserved solitary and colonial corals are abundant in the limestone boulders along the south-east shore of the lough.