What's in ... Sligo?

Like County Donegal, County Sligo is fringed by superb coastal scenery and boasts outcrops of fossil-rich rocks. The limestone escarpment of Kings Mountain and Glencar is well worth seeing.

 

 

Carboniferous limestones at Glencar
81/107 Black Collection
Department of Geology, Ulster Museum

 

Ben Bulben
206/171 Black Collection
Department of Geology, Ulster Museum
Looking east along Glencar from Swiss Valley
15/178 Black Collection
Department of Geology, Ulster Museum

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