LOCALITIES OF IRISH CARBONIFEROUS FOSSILS. 
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miles south of Skerries. The quarries here are of light gray- 
pure limestone, and there is abundance of fossils, which come 
well out of the rock; two or three species of Euomphalus are 
common. Millstone grit shales also occur in this townland, which 
are seen in a deep cutting of the Drogheda Railway, and con¬ 
tain Posidonise, and other fossils peculiar to this rock. 
Ballymacan is in Tyrone, It is two miles S.W. of Clogher. The 
streams hereabouts abound with fossils, in a black calcareous 
slate,—scales of fishes have been found in it, as well as many of 
the usual fossils of the limestone. 
Ballymacelligot, in Kerry, is three miles east of Tralee, at both 
sides of the Killarney road. Gray limestone occurs here, and 
a peculiar kind of flinty slate is used in repairing the roads; 
some fossils are found. 
Ballymahon, in the county of Longford, is a pretty large town. 
The country about here is fossiliferous limestone. 
Ballymakean, in Cork, is three miles south of Kinsale. This vi¬ 
cinity affords goniatites. 
Ballymeeny, in Sligo, is two miles S.E. of the village of Easky. 
The rock is rather an impure limestone, mostly in thin beds, 
which frequently have thin partings of shale. 
Ballynure, in Londonderry, is four miles west of Maghera. The 
rock here is mostly a black calcareous shale, with some hard beds. 
Fish scales and bones are got in a stream in the east boundary 
of this townland, about ten chains up from the Moyola river, 
and twenty chains N.W. of the Forge Bridge. 
Balsitric, in Meath, is three miles east of Nobber, and two miles 
S.W. of Drumcondra. The lower black beds of the limestone 
occur here with slate; and Pleurorhyncus giganteus is abundant 
in them. 
Banada, in Londonderry, is four miles north of Draperstown, on 
the road to Dungiven. Fossils are got here in red marly shale, 
of the Old Red Sandstone, in a ravine a few chains east of the road. 
Bannaghagole, in Carlow, is two miles west of Leighlinbridge. 
The rock here is limestone, covered by the coal rocks of Castle- 
comer. Fossils are found abundant, and some of them, where 
the rock is exposed to the weather, stand out in relief, and af¬ 
ford fine specimens, showing the muscular impressions of the 
fossils and other parts very well. 
