Ballycastle Fieldtrip ( Joint Belfast Field Naturalists Club and Belfast Geologists’ Society)
Date : Saturday19th July 10.15
Leader : Karen Parks
Meeting : 10.15 at the Diamond
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Field Trip 2nd and 3rd August Joint Belfast Geologists’ Society and Irish Geological Association
‘Please Mind the Gap-Groundwater flow through the Permian- Triassic rocks’
Date : Day 1 – 2nd August 10.30
Leader : Dr Mark Cooper ( Chief Geologist
GSNI)
Meeting : Meet at Scrabo Quarry Carpark.
Toilets available.
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Day 2 – 3rd August 9.30
Meet: Carrickfergus Castle Carpark. Toilets
available.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WGvHLQEP9RDj5oqB8
Location: Cavan Burren forest park, Co. Cavan
Meeting point: Cavan Burren forest park car park – Google pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/M1ERp5c4txzJJgdH9 - sufficient car parking available
Meeting date and time: Saturday 30 August 2025, 1030-1530.
Wednesday 3rd September (LW = 14.42).
Meet at the car park by Red Bay RNLI station, on the south side of Cushendall, at 11a.m
Event: Whitehead and Browns Bay Fieldtrip
Date: Saturday 18th October 2025
Leader: Ian Enlander
Location: Whitehead and Browns Bay, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim
Meeting points:
Morning 10.30 am Beach Road, Whitehead
Google Beach Road car park 54.749439, -5.709870 – P7XR+Q3 Carrickfergus
Good Neighbours – Paleogene igneous rocks of Slieve Gullion and Carlingford.Joint IGA/BGS Weekend Excursion 11th and 12th April 2026
Title: Field demonstration – Clement Wilson Park: Belfast
Leader: Alastair Ruffell
Date: 29th April 2026
Time:1.00pm
Location:
Clement Wilson Park, River Lagan Embankment
9th May 2026
Field trip to Portballintrae and Giants Causeway
Meet at the Salmon Rock Beach Car Park in Portballintrae at 10.30am. 55.219859, -6.540668
What 3 words ///agreement.awesome.hotspot
This trip will outline the geology of the area and the importance of the Causeway Centre in relation to the design of the centre and discuss Mike Simms’ new theory on the how the Causeway formed
