Tertrapod Footprints - Valentia Island

reland is littered with wonderful archaeological sites, but not many people are aware that off the south costs on the Island of Valenta lies a set of animal footprints which were made somewhere between 350 and 370 million years ago. The Tetrapod (four limbed[foot]) footprints were made by one of the first amphibians and represents the transition of life from water to land – a momentous turning point in evolution and provides the oldest reliably dated evidence of four legged vertebrates (amphibians) moving over land. The Valentia Island Tetrapod footprints are the most extensive of the four Devonian trackways in the world. (The others are in Tarbet Ness, Scotland; Genoa River, NSW Australia; Glen Isla, Victoria Australia). Access to the track way is by a pathway down to the rocks.