Valentia Lighthouse
Scene of Guinness TV comercial as "Ireland's most remote Pub"
Shir isint it in the back of beyonds !
Fossilized footprints identified on Valentia
Island off the
southwest coast of Ireland
These prints, which form a trail about
15 meters long, were made a staggering 385 million
years ago - 200 million years before even the dinosaurs! - and
are the oldest ever found in the northern hemisphere; so old that the
metre-long salamander-type creature which made them was probably one
of the first ever amphibians to begin the transition to becoming a reptile.
The only prints known to be older, dating to 400
million years, are to be found in Australia
WARNING !!
This area is Very Dangerous with Huge Atlantic
Swells hitting these rocks.
It is also very Slippery so we have decided until the area is properly
secured with Railings and Paths not to give its location at present.