FOSSIL HUNTING BY REGION
Northern Ireland has a small number of coastal fossil hunting locations, with some productive sites along the Antrim coast. White Park Bay, located northwest of Ballycastle, yields Mesozoic fossils including ammonites, belemnites, and Gryphaea from exposed strata.
Additional sites included from Ireland, such as the Hook Head peninsula in County Waterford, are known for abundant and well-preserved Carboniferous fossils. These deposits provide a rich source of marine fossil material.
Although fewer in number compared to mainland UK locations, these sites still offer opportunities to collect fossils from a range of geological periods.
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The rocky shore beside Hook Lighthouse, in County Wexford, exposes fossil-rich Carboniferous limestone. Crinoids, brachiopods, corals and delicate bryozoan colonies can be seen weathering from its bedding surfaces. This is an…
Read the guide →East of Malahide town centre, the small bay beside the village green offers a close look at fossil-bearing limestone pebbles. Crinoids, bryozoans, shells and corals record the Lower Carboniferous seas of…
Read the guide →North of Portmarnock, the Robswalls rocky shore exposes fossil-rich Lower Carboniferous limestone beside Coast Road. Between the coast south-east of Malahide and the Carrickhill Martello tower, weathered platforms reveal corals, crinoids,…
Read the guide →Just north of Larne harbour, Waterloo Bay exposes a remarkable Late Triassic to Early Jurassic succession. The dark mudstones of the Waterloo Mudstone Formation contain ammonites, bivalves and other marine fossils,…
Read the guide →White Park Bay on the north Antrim coast brings together Jurassic ammonites, fossil-bearing nodules and Cretaceous chalk in a broad sandy bay. Intermittent mudstone exposures around Oweynamuck contrast with the chalk…
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