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Kingscourt Gypsum
Stratigraphic range: Wuchiapingian
~259–255 Ma
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TypeFormation
Unit ofNew Red Sandstone
Sub-unitsLower Gypsum, Lower Mudstone, Middle Mudstone, Upper Gypsum & Upper Mudstone Members
Lithology
PrimaryShale, gypsum
OtherMudstone, claystone
Location
Coordinates53°54′N 6°48′W / 53.9°N 6.8°W / 53.9; -6.8
Approximate paleocoordinates16°00′N 11°30′E / 16.0°N 11.5°E / 16.0; 11.5
RegionCounty Cavan
CountryKingscourt Gypsum Ireland
Type section
Named forKingscourt
Kingscourt Gypsum is located in Ireland
Kingscourt Gypsum
Kingscourt Gypsum (Ireland)

The Kingscourt Gypsum is a geologic formation in Ireland. It preserves fossil flora dating back to the Wuchiapingian stage of the late Permian period.[1]

  1. ^ Kingscourt Gypsum at Fossilworks.org

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Kingscourt Gypsum

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The Kingscourt Gypsum is a geologic formation in Ireland. It preserves fossil flora dating back to the Wuchiapingian stage of the late Permian period...

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Kingscourt

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service. The line, which runs from Kingscourt to Navan and then on to Drogheda, was used to carry gypsum ore daily from Gypsum Industries, but the company withdrew...

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Kingscourt Sandstone

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Triassic period. The formation is immediately to the west of the Kingscourt Gypsum formation, stretching through counties Cavan and Monaghan. List of...

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Kingscourt railway station

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traffic to road. The last gypsum train departed Kingscourt on 30 October 2001. The last train of all to operate to and from Kingscourt was a weed-spraying train...

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Nobber

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work") is a village in north County Meath, Ireland. It is on the Navan–Kingscourt road (R162), about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Navan. This places the...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Republic of Ireland

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Carboniferous New Red Sandstone Group /  Kingscourt Gypsum Formation Permian New Red Sandstone Group /  Kingscourt Sandstone Formation Triassic Old Red Sandstone...

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Victor Sherlock

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Born 1924 Kingscourt, County Cavan Died 21 June 2004 (age 80) Kilmainhamwood, County Meath Club(s) Years Club 1944–1947 1947–1948 1948–1965 Gypsum Rangers...

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Navan Junction railway station

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through the site - until 2001, trains transported gypsum from the Gypsum Industries plant at Kingscourt through the site, while trains from the Tara Mine...

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County Cavan

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Cootehill Crossdoney Dowra Glangevlin Kilcogy Killeshandra Kilnaleck Kingscourt Lough Gowna Milltown Mountnugent Mullagh Redhills Shercock Stradone Swanlinbar...

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Wilkinstown

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County Meath, Ireland. It is located on the Yellow River and the Navan–Kingscourt road (R162) about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) between both Navan and Nobber...

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Dunshaughlin railway station

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North proposed Proudstown 1939 Gibbstown 1947 Wilkinstown 1947 Castletown 1933 Nobber 1947 Kilmainham Wood 1947 Gypsum Industries 2001 Kingscourt 2001...

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Magheracloone

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approximately 90 km to both Belfast and Dublin. Magheracloone contains the only gypsum mine in Ireland. Extraction from underneath the land has caused sinkholes...

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Oldcastle branch line

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Oldcastle was closed. The line to Drogheda was kept open for gypsum traffic from Kingscourt until 2001 and some of the track to Kells was relaid in 1977...

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Rail transport in Ireland

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nationwide bagged cement and beer keg freight,[citation needed] gypsum loads (Kingscourt–Dublin), and bulk cement (from cement factories at Platin near...

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Monica Barnes

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Monaghan. Her father was a trade unionist who worked at the Gypsum Industries Factory in Kingscourt, County Cavan. She was educated at the Louis Convent, Carrickmacross...

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