Geological Museum, Trinity College Dublin

A university museum where the Dundrum meteorite, found warm in a Tipperary potato field in 1865, is on display.

Key facts

Where

Dublin, Ireland

Kind

University collection

Visiting

Public gallery or display at a university

Trinity College Dublin's Geological Museum is a teaching museum in the university's Museum Building, a Victorian landmark in its own right. Its collections of minerals, rocks and fossils have been built up since the 18th century.

Its meteorite is Dundrum, an H5 ordinary chondrite of about 2.3 kilograms. It fell on 12 August 1865 near Dundrum in County Tipperary, where three men heard a clap like a cannon, then a buzzing sound, and found the stone half buried and still warm in a potato field. The landowner, Lord Hawarden, gave it to Trinity soon afterwards, and it remains on public display. Its flat faces show that it broke away from a larger mass during its fall.

Highlights

• Dundrum fell 1865 H5

See every meteorite recorded in the UK and Ireland on the Britain and Ireland page.

Opening times, what is on display and access to research collections change over time, so check with the institution before you visit.