Blackhead and Portmuck Geology – a whale of a mystery( and much more) at Portmuck
Blackhead and Portmuck Geology
Basalts and pebbles at Blackhead. A whale of a mystery (and much more) at Portmuck
Saturday 26th September 10.30am – 4.30pm
Leader: Ian Enlander
Location: Blackhead (morning) and Portmuck (afternoon)
Meeting points
Morning session. Meet at 10.30am seafront car park, Whitehead.
Grid ref: J 47880 92207. Lat/long: 54.756189, -5.7033983
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Afternoon session. Meet at 2.00pm Portmuck Harbour, Islandmagee car park
Grid ref: D 45996 02280. Lat/long: 54.847164, -5.7275797
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Geology and Orchids at Killard Point National Nature Reserve
Geology and Orchids at Killard Point National Nature Reserve
Saturday 15th August 11 am – 4pm
Leaders: Karen Parks and Jake Dalzell
Location: Meet at 11.00am at the steps down to the beach on the Killard Road (grid reference J59904407). 54.31884° N, 5.54217° W.
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Cavan Burren Field Trip
Event: Cavan Burren field trip
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 1st August 2026, 1030-1530
Joint fieldtrip with Belfast Geologists Soc and Belfast Naturalists Field Club to Ballintoy
Ballintoy 18th July
Joint field trip with the Belfast Geologists’ Society and the Belfast Field Naturalists’ Club
Meet at Ballintoy Harbour Car park : 55.243874 , -6.3695114
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Time 10.00 am to 4.30pm
Field trip to Portballintrae and Giant’s Causeway
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
Field Demonstration,Clement Wilson Park,Belfast
Title: Field demonstration – Clement Wilson Park: Belfast
Leader: Alastair Ruffell
Date: 29th April 2026
Time:1.00pm
Location:
Clement Wilson Park, River Lagan Embankment
Good Neighbours – Paleogene igneous rocks of Slieve Gullion and Carlingford.Joint IGA/BGS Weekend Excursion 11th and 12th April 2026
Good Neighbours – Paleogene igneous rocks of Slieve Gullion and Carlingford.Joint IGA/BGS Weekend Excursion 11th and 12th April 2026
Whitehead and Browns Bay Fieldtrip –quarries and industrial heritage; beaches, streams and rocks
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
Cushendall Fieldtrip
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
Cavan Burren Fieldtrip
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.
‘Please Mind the Gap-Groundwater flow through the Permian- Triassic rocks’ 2 Day Fieldtrip
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.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZ3qi2sEdMabvvHq7
Day 2 – 3rd August 9.30
Meet: Carrickfergus Castle Carpark. Toilets
available.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WGvHLQEP9RDj5oqB8
Ballycastle Fieldtrip ( Joint Belfast Field Naturalists Club and Belfast Geologists’ Society)
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
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNgguhKb8f6aWRZh6
Waterloo foreshore,Larne,Co Antrim
Waterloo foreshore, Larne, Co. Antrim
Date: Saturday 5th July 13.30
Leader: Ralph Semple BSc (hons) MPhil. Mem PESGB
Meeting: Larne Leisure Centre
Location: Google maps 54.85495911612962, -5.801326974861821 (V53X+XG)
Mid-Antrim Iron and Bauxite mines – geology and industrial history
Mid-Antrim Iron and Bauxite mines – geology and industrial history
When: Saturday 21st June 2025
Lead: Ian Enlander
Meet: 10.30am at The Drum car park, Skerry E Rd, Ballymena BT43 6FG
Fieldtrip to Trainor’s Rocks,western Mourne Mountains
Fieldtrip to Trainor’s Rocks, western Mourne Mountains
Saturday 10th May 2025, 11:00 to ~17:00
Lead: Dr Norman Moles
Meet :141 Rostrevor Road, Hilltown BT34 5TZ – 2.5 miles south of Hilltown
70th Anniversary Field trip -Building Stones tour of Belfast ( members only)
70th Anniversary Field trip -Building Stones tour of Belfast – this is a members’ only trip
Date : 13th April
Meeting point : City Hall at the front of the main entrance at 10.30am
Killard Point with Dr. Alastair Ruffell
14 September 2024
LEAD: Dr. Alastair Ruffell
Meet: Layby at Mill Quarter Bay, Killard Road, 1:00 pm
Glenarm and Carnlough
Saturday 17th August
Karen Parks and Mary Watson
Meet: Largy Road carpark North of Carnlough, 10:00 am. Finish: 4:00 pm.
Waterloo, Larne – Our Jurassic Coast
NOW CHANGED to 27th July 2024
LEAD: Karen Parks
DETAILS: An Introduction to the Geology of Waterloo, North of Larne- our Jurassic Coast.
Meet at the Larne leisure Centre Carpark 9.30am 54.854925, -5.802215
Conlig/Whitespots Lead Mines
15th June 2024
LEAD: Ian Enlander
MEET: 10.30 am car park beside Somme Museum
Paddy’s Point – Strangford Lough and Castle Espie
6th June
LEAD: Dr Mike Simms
Meet :6.30pm Waddell’s Hill car park ( Grid Ref J490673)
Revealing Scrabo – Geodiversity, Geoconservation and Geosite Management
18th May 2024
Dr Michael Dempster – Earth Science and Heritage Officer, NI Environment Agency
Meet: Scrabo Country Park carpark, 10:30 am.
Blackhead and Portmuck Geology – a whale of a mystery( and much more) at Portmuck
Blackhead and Portmuck Geology
Basalts and pebbles at Blackhead. A whale of a mystery (and much more) at Portmuck
Saturday 26th September 10.30am – 4.30pm
Leader: Ian Enlander
Location: Blackhead (morning) and Portmuck (afternoon)
Meeting points
Morning session. Meet at 10.30am seafront car park, Whitehead.
Grid ref: J 47880 92207. Lat/long: 54.756189, -5.7033983
What3words ///models.easygoing.lorry
Afternoon session. Meet at 2.00pm Portmuck Harbour, Islandmagee car park
Grid ref: D 45996 02280. Lat/long: 54.847164, -5.7275797
What3words ///awakes.soda.failed
Geology and Orchids at Killard Point National Nature Reserve
Geology and Orchids at Killard Point National Nature Reserve
Saturday 15th August 11 am – 4pm
Leaders: Karen Parks and Jake Dalzell
Location: Meet at 11.00am at the steps down to the beach on the Killard Road (grid reference J59904407). 54.31884° N, 5.54217° W.
What3words ///doted.avid.lotteries
Cavan Burren Field Trip
Event: Cavan Burren field trip
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 1st August 2026, 1030-1530
Joint fieldtrip with Belfast Geologists Soc and Belfast Naturalists Field Club to Ballintoy
Ballintoy 18th July
Joint field trip with the Belfast Geologists’ Society and the Belfast Field Naturalists’ Club
Meet at Ballintoy Harbour Car park : 55.243874 , -6.3695114
What 3 Words ///stale.immune.collides
Time 10.00 am to 4.30pm
Field trip to Portballintrae and Giant’s Causeway
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
Field Demonstration,Clement Wilson Park,Belfast
Title: Field demonstration – Clement Wilson Park: Belfast
Leader: Alastair Ruffell
Date: 29th April 2026
Time:1.00pm
Location:
Clement Wilson Park, River Lagan Embankment
Good Neighbours – Paleogene igneous rocks of Slieve Gullion and Carlingford.Joint IGA/BGS Weekend Excursion 11th and 12th April 2026
Good Neighbours – Paleogene igneous rocks of Slieve Gullion and Carlingford.Joint IGA/BGS Weekend Excursion 11th and 12th April 2026
Whitehead and Browns Bay Fieldtrip –quarries and industrial heritage; beaches, streams and rocks
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
Cushendall Fieldtrip
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
Cavan Burren Fieldtrip
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.
‘Please Mind the Gap-Groundwater flow through the Permian- Triassic rocks’ 2 Day Fieldtrip
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.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZ3qi2sEdMabvvHq7
Day 2 – 3rd August 9.30
Meet: Carrickfergus Castle Carpark. Toilets
available.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WGvHLQEP9RDj5oqB8
Ballycastle Fieldtrip ( Joint Belfast Field Naturalists Club and Belfast Geologists’ Society)
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
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNgguhKb8f6aWRZh6
Waterloo foreshore,Larne,Co Antrim
Waterloo foreshore, Larne, Co. Antrim
Date: Saturday 5th July 13.30
Leader: Ralph Semple BSc (hons) MPhil. Mem PESGB
Meeting: Larne Leisure Centre
Location: Google maps 54.85495911612962, -5.801326974861821 (V53X+XG)
Mid-Antrim Iron and Bauxite mines – geology and industrial history
Mid-Antrim Iron and Bauxite mines – geology and industrial history
When: Saturday 21st June 2025
Lead: Ian Enlander
Meet: 10.30am at The Drum car park, Skerry E Rd, Ballymena BT43 6FG
Fieldtrip to Trainor’s Rocks,western Mourne Mountains
Fieldtrip to Trainor’s Rocks, western Mourne Mountains
Saturday 10th May 2025, 11:00 to ~17:00
Lead: Dr Norman Moles
Meet :141 Rostrevor Road, Hilltown BT34 5TZ – 2.5 miles south of Hilltown
70th Anniversary Field trip -Building Stones tour of Belfast ( members only)
70th Anniversary Field trip -Building Stones tour of Belfast – this is a members’ only trip
Date : 13th April
Meeting point : City Hall at the front of the main entrance at 10.30am
Killard Point with Dr. Alastair Ruffell
14 September 2024
LEAD: Dr. Alastair Ruffell
Meet: Layby at Mill Quarter Bay, Killard Road, 1:00 pm
Glenarm and Carnlough
Saturday 17th August
Karen Parks and Mary Watson
Meet: Largy Road carpark North of Carnlough, 10:00 am. Finish: 4:00 pm.
Waterloo, Larne – Our Jurassic Coast
NOW CHANGED to 27th July 2024
LEAD: Karen Parks
DETAILS: An Introduction to the Geology of Waterloo, North of Larne- our Jurassic Coast.
Meet at the Larne leisure Centre Carpark 9.30am 54.854925, -5.802215
Conlig/Whitespots Lead Mines
15th June 2024
LEAD: Ian Enlander
MEET: 10.30 am car park beside Somme Museum
Paddy’s Point – Strangford Lough and Castle Espie
6th June
LEAD: Dr Mike Simms
Meet :6.30pm Waddell’s Hill car park ( Grid Ref J490673)
Revealing Scrabo – Geodiversity, Geoconservation and Geosite Management
18th May 2024
Dr Michael Dempster – Earth Science and Heritage Officer, NI Environment Agency
Meet: Scrabo Country Park carpark, 10:30 am.