LOCALITIES OF IRISH CARBONIFEROUS FOSSILS. 
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them, and a geologist may come upon a pretty good collection 
of fish remains for a few shillings. 
Athenry, ten miles east of Galway, is a small town in the middle of 
a country of gray limestone, which generally contains very few 
fossils; the most remarkable is Lithostrotion striatum , which is 
found in very fine specimens in various parts of the surround¬ 
ing country, especially at Carrowntobber, two miles north of the 
town, where the rock is near the surface,—-as it is in all this 
locality. 
Augharainy, in Fermanagh, lies about one mile south of the village 
of Kesh, on the road to Enniskillen. The whole country for a 
few miles round Kesh is composed of yellow sandstone, inter- 
stratified with black calcareous slate and limestone bands, which 
abound in the ordinary fossils. A search here would well repay 
the labour. 
Ballina, a large town, on the river Moy, in Mayo, stands on lime¬ 
stone, in which some fossils are got in quarries about the town. 
Ballinacourty, in Waterford, lies three miles east of Dungarvan, 
on the north shore of the entrance to Dungarvan Harbour. The 
rock is calcareous slate, dipping to the north, and succeeded by 
limestone, which is of a very light gray colour, and very pure 
in quality, apparently one enormous massive bed, having strong 
and distinct traces of cleavage, but very faint of stratification. 
The rocks round the shore, southward from the little pier, 
contain a great variety and abundance of fossils; Productse, Spiri- 
ferge, Orthides, Atrypse, andPecten are found; and in the decom¬ 
posing rock numerous casts of encrenite heads. Immediately south 
of the little quay, on the shore, Pleurorhyncus alceformis is abun¬ 
dant. This fossil is also found in similar strata at Poulscadden, 
and opposite the new hotel on the shore at Malahide. The beds 
of slate have a strong cleavage here, and in getting out fossils 
care must be taken to break or split the rocks along the sedi¬ 
mentary lines, and not on the cleavage lines. 
Ballinafad, in Sligo, lies five miles north of Boyle, on the Sligo 
road. The limestone at the quarries here dip at a steep angle 
N.W., on the northern flank of the Curlew mountains. It is 
not rich in fossils. 
B allinglen, in Mayo, is six miles N.W. of Killala, and two S.W. 
of the village of Bally castle. There is a good section of the 
