Protected area type: Areas of Special Scientific Interest
Feature type: 
  • Earth Science
County: 
  • Fermanagh
Council: Fermanagh and Omagh
Guidance and literature: Bellanaleck ASSI

One of the most important geological localities in the Carboniferous outcrop of Northern Ireland being one of only two occurences of Waulsortian 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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