Next, onto Streedagh Beach, but not for the beach...Streedagh is an important fossil site, with many
coral species, brachiopods, crinoids and foraminifera. The most spectacular were the long solitary corals, Siphonophyllia samsonensis. Not unsurprisingly, they were likened to snakes - possibly the ones that St Patrick banished.....
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| Benbulben in the background. |
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| Crossing some nice machair to get to the site. |
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| Solitary corals..... |
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| Colonial coral - probably Siphondendron sp. |
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| An upturned coral head. |
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| More spectacular views. |
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| And on the way back ....Adder's Tongue fern. |
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