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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 
Bannaghbeg, in Fermanagh, is one mile N.W. of the village of Kesh. 
The Bannagh river, flowing along this townland, affords a good 
section through the black shales. Fish scales are found in some 
of the beds, especially these of Holoptychius PortlocJcii. 
Banagher, in the King’s County, is a middling town, near the 
Shannon, on limestone. There are some fossils in the quarries 
near the town. 
Banteer, in Cork, is three miles south of Kanturk. The limestone 
here is light gray; some beds of it appear to be almost composed 
of a small fossil —Gucullea arguta; the same is abundant at 
Mallow. 
Belmore Mountain, in Fermanagh, is six miles S.W. of Enniskillen. 
The calcareous slate on the eastern face of this mountain contains 
fossils abundantly, as also the limestone which surmounts it. 
Benburb, in Tyrone, is a small town, six miles N.W. of Armagh. 
Some precipices of limestone are exposed at the old castle, in 
which fossils are found. In the canal cutting on the south side 
of the river here, there are five bands of yellow sandstone, alter¬ 
nating with gray limestone and black shale. The limestone 
and the shale beds contain several species of Products?. 
Blackball Head is in Cork; it is thirty miles from Bantry, on 
the north shore of Bantry Bay. The black slaty limestone here 
contains many species of fossils. 
Blacklion is in Leitrim, twelve miles W. of Enniskillen, on the 
Sligo road. The limestone in the vicinity of this place is rich 
in fossils. 
Blackrock, in Cork, is two miles E. of the city, on the south side 
of the river. There are several quarries of gray limestone in the 
vicinity, which abound with fossils. All the fossils of the valley 
of Cork are distorted, both those which lie in the calcareous slaty 
strata of the base of the limestone, and those in the limestone 
itself. The limestone of this valley appears to have undergone 
a kind of cleavage, and the calcareous slate which lies belows it 
has a very distinct cleavage. This is not usual in the midland 
or northern counties of Ireland. The line which separates those 
conditions of the calcareous rocks and their fossils may be said 
to be the course of the river Blackwater from Cappoquin to 
Mallow, producing this line a few miles both ways. It is re¬ 
markable on the two sides of Waterford Harbour, that the fos- 
