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in which remains of plants and shells have been discovered and made 
known by the persons employed on the Geological Survey. 
72. At Rocksborough, near Wexford, the lower beds of conglo¬ 
merate were visible at a farm-house on the roadside; but recently 
a new road has been made close by the house, and the rock thereby 
concealed, or quarried away. It lies here on yellow massive quartz 
rock, which has obscure joints of cleavage, or of bedding, dipping 
towards the north-west; the lines are nearly obliterated. 
77. At Templetown, on the shore, is a clear, well-exposed section 
of the Old Red Sandstone, lying on gray slate, which, from the 
junction towards Duncannon, is very much contorted. The sand¬ 
stone here has a pretty regular dip southward, averaging about 12°. 
Near its southern termination in a little bay are thin beds of lime¬ 
stone, with black shale, and full of fossils; and over this again a 
thin band of yellow sandstone. Then come the shales and limestone, 
which continue to Hook Head. This I consider one of the most 
complete typical sections, and the best exposed in Ireland, of the 
Old Red Sandstone and limestone. 
The Society met on the 14th of May, 1856, on which occasion the 
following Paper was read. 
ON THE LOWER CARBONIFEROUS BEDS OF THE PENINSULA OF HOOK, 
COUNTY OF WEXFORD. BY THE REV. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M. A., PRO¬ 
FESSOR OF GEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. 
The parish of Hook, county of Wexford, is well known to afford 
one of the best sections of the lower Carboniferous beds in the south 
of Ireland; and as no detailed account of it has been published, I 
have put my notes together, and endeavoured to lay them in a con¬ 
nected form before the Society. From the fact of the strike of the 
beds running across the peninsula, an opportunity is afforded of 
studying them at both sides, in the Waterford Harbour and on the 
sea-side; and it is not difficult to obtain an approximate value of the 
thickness of each deposit. 
There is an uninterrupted series of conformable deposits, extend¬ 
ing from the Old Red Sandstone conglomerate on the north, to the 
Carboniferous Limestone of Hook Light-house on the south, unbroken, 
