Malahide Castle
Malahide Castle
Site Details
- Location
- Malahide Castle
- Grid reference
- 53.4450826, -6.16074282
- Fossil Name
- Brachiopods, corals, goniatites
- Fossil Type
- Various marine animals (shells and other invertebrate animals – without backbones)
- Fossil Age
- Carboniferous
- Rock Type
- Limestone
- Access Info
- Easily accessible from the public car park. Entrance fee required.
- Fossil Info
- The paving stones in the butterfly house are made of very fossiliferous grey limestone, with solitary and colonial corals, brachiopods, and even rare goniatites.