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Ballyhgally head Maerl Beds


Maerl
 (also known as rhodolith) is a collective name for non-geniculate coralline red algae with a certain growth habit. Maerl grows at a rate of c. 1 mm per year. It accumulates as unattached particles and forms extensive beds in suitable sublittoral sites. The term maerl originally refers to the branched growth form of Lemoine (1910) and the term rhodolith is sedimentalogical or genetic term for both the nodular and branched growth forms

this area Maerl can be found scattered all over the sea bed and in some places very thick quantities Of Ballygally Head