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two miles north-east of Lismore, and Cappagh, eight miles -east of the 

 same place, Plant stems half an inch broad, with fine striae lengthwise, 

 have been collected, at the latter place, accompanied by the branching 

 plants Filicites linedtus. The large fern, Adiantites Hibernicus, accom- 

 panied by Ano&onta Julcesii, was found also near Cork, and still more 

 south, at Tracarta, near Castle Townshend and Gokane Point, west of 

 Toe Head Bay, where it was first noticed by Mr. A. "Wyley, of the 

 Geological Survey of Ireland, and afterwards Geological and Mine- 

 ralogical Surveyor of Cape Colony — the fossils at both the latter 

 places being much in the same condition with regard to their state of 

 preservation: occurring in more slaty rocks, and subject to cleavage, 

 they are not so easily obtained as those of Kiltorcan; neither are they 

 so beautifully preserved. All the species are, however, identical. 

 A single fish tooth only, precisely similar to that from Kiltorcan, I 

 have referred to Bothriolepis — it was collected at Tracarta ; the other 

 fossils — being all Plants of the following species — Adiantites Hibernicus, 

 Sagemria Veltheimiana, Cyclostigma Kiltorkense, Stigmaria-like Plants, 

 probably roots of Sagenaria, similar to that observed at Kiltorcan, and 

 narrow-leaved branching Plants, perhaps rootlets. 



At Gokane Point, from rocks on shore of similar character, the species 

 of fossil Plants collected were the same, with the addition of Sphenop- 

 teris Hoolceri. The large bivalve shell, Anodonta Julcesii, was also found 

 here. It is somewhat remarkable that all these localities with similar 

 fossil Plants are situated in nearly a straight line, running in a direction 

 K. E. and S. W. from Kiltorcan, county of Kilkenny, to Tallow Bridge, 

 county of Waterford, Tivoli Villa, Tracarta, and Gokane, county of 

 Cork. The upper beds of the Old Eed Sandstone are well shown in a 

 large quarry which Mr. Joseph O'Kelly, M. A., Senior Geologist of the 

 Geological Survey, pointed out to me, on a visit I made with that gen- 

 tleman in 1 862. Some of the beds were finely laminated, the layers 

 being so full of Plant remains as to present quite a coaly aspect, cross- 

 ing each other in matted masses. Some of these Plant stems, branching 

 and striated lengthwise, were two and a half inches broad. The surface 

 markings were, however, too obscure for anything like specific determi- 

 nation. Mr. Wynne, in the Explanation to Sheet 126 of the Maps of the 

 Geological Survey, describes rocks of Old Eed Sandstone in the Eiver 

 Bunnow, near Killavilla, about three miles and a quarter north-east of 

 Eoscrea, as grey sandy shales, from which he collected branching 

 Plant stems, with three-lobed leaflets attached, resembling Sphenop- 

 teris, the layers of rock being fall of Plant remains, including stems 

 of various sizes, from the tenth of an inch to nearly an inch broad, some 

 of them branching.^ 



Several fossil Plant localities were observed by the officers of the 



* Sir Richard Griffith notices several of these localities in his paper " On the Re- 

 mains of Fossil Plants of the Yellow Sandstone."™" Journal of the Royal Dublin Society./' 

 vol. i., p. 313. 



