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Trim Castle

Trim Castle

Site Details

Location
Trim Castle
Grid reference
53.55509274, -6.79092571
Fossil Name
Brachiopods
Fossil Type
Marine animals (shells, invertebrate animals – without backbones)
Fossil Age
Carboniferous
Rock Type
Limestone
Access Info
Easily accessible from the footpath. Take care - the fossils are on the kerb. Pay and display public car park immediately adjacent to the site.
Fossil Info
The limestone kerbstones show cross-sections of large productid brachiopods.

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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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