Limestone, sandstone, shale — these are familiar sights in the footpaths, walls, and buildings of Irish towns and cities. But there’s a lot more to these rocks than meets the eye. Many Irish rocks ...

The first Irish fossils to catch my eye shone out from a big panel of dark and highly polished limestone, spotlit beside the desk of Michael Scott, the eminent Dublin architect, in his Merrion Square ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks. In the middle of the City ...

The discovery of a well-preserved group of sea urchin fossils off the South-East coast has been hailed as one of the most “exceptional and striking fossil finds in the last century”. The fossils were ...