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Bellanaleck ASSI

Last updated: 5 February 2010

Site No ASSI 120
Area 0.93 (ha)
Declared Date 28/03/1996
Confirmed Date 04/09/1996
County Fermanagh
Council(s) Fermanagh DC
Keywords Earth Science

One of the most important geological localities in the Carboniferous outcrop of Northern Ireland being one of only two occurences of WaulsortianOpens in New window mound limestones . A diverse macrofauna includes, for the first time in Northern Ireland, a suite of trilobites that are of late Tournaisian age, some 340 million years old.

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