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Hi, Gerry– Welcome to the forum! Please feel free to ask any and all questions about geology and related subjects. This is still a small section, thus you may need a bit of luck to find someone here who knows the specific geology of Ireland. If none come forward, there is always the Internet mail-list rocks-and-fossils to be tried (though it has been off-line for a week or two); see INTERN.TXT in the library for details. You might want to keep half an eye out for info about the geology of Newfoundland and southern Greenland, since they were neighbors of Ireland a "short" time ago (140 million years is not long to a geologist). I am not a pro geologist (though others who "hang out" here are), just an amateur mineral collector – I am aware of a number of minerals from England and am keenly interested in those from the alkalic igneous intrusions of southwest Greenland, and am wondering why I have not heard of similar minerals from Ireland. Have you folks been hiding something? Happy hunting! –Doug