The Palaeontological Collections of The Geological Survey Of Ireland

Abstract

The origin of the Geological Survey of Ireland's Palaeontological Collections dates back to the launch of a geological survey by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in 1825. The history of geological mapping by the Ordnance Survey and later in the nineteenth century by the Geological Survey of Ireland has been covered in detail by Berries Davies (1983); only a brief appraisal of this history, based largely on Davies' work, is given here, as it relates to the formation and growth of the Palaeontological Collections.

An appreciation: Matthew Alastair Parkes (1961–2020)

“…This appreciation is an expanded and augmented version of two published in The Geological Curator (Monaghan 2020) and Descent (Simms 2021).…”

Geological Survey of Ireland: National Heritage Council funded curation project of 19th Century collection

“…This article should be cited as: For any GCG members who attended the June 1990 meeting Geology in Irish Museums or who read the resulting paper by Sleeman (1992) in this journal, the following news may be of interest. An application to the National Heritage Council in the Republic of Ireland, to complete the curation of the entire fossil collections of the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSl), proved successful earlier this year.…”

“…An application to the National Heritage Council in the Republic of Ireland, to complete the curation of the entire fossil collections of the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSl), proved successful earlier this year. As noted by Sleeman (1992) the collection is mostly from the 19th century, collected by officers of the GSl between 1845 and 1889 during the primary geological mapping of the country.…”