THE GEOLOGIST. 



MARCH 1863. 



ON THE BITUMINOUS COAL OF THE ARIGNA DIS- 

 TRICT, COUNTIES OF ROSCOMMON AND LEITRIM. 



Br George V. Du Noyer, M.R.T.A., 



Senior Geologist, Geological Survey of Ireland. 



" Why is it that there is no bituminous coal of any account in Ire- 

 land ? " This is a question which I have often been asked by well- 

 informed people, and the answer is comprised in the one descriptive 



Fig. 1. — Junction of basal sandstones and black ironstone shales, on Btreatn bounding 

 the townlands of Tullymurry and Tullycorka, norlh-easl base of AJtagowlan mouutain, 

 County Leitrim. 



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