OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 19 



The Gallions, between Newtown-ftewart and Du- 

 glafs-bridge, are very rich in limeftone, which is al- 

 lowed to be of the beft quality for building of any in 

 the county. 



The above quarries, with others more inferior, are. 

 upon the Newtown-ftewart eftate, the property of 

 Lord Mountjoy; and alfo two celebrated freeftone 

 quarries, one at Cofeik, within three miles of New- 

 town-ftewart, and the other at Tallynure, on the river 

 Struel, within a fmall diftance of the demefne of Rafh. 

 To the former quarry a great part of the building of 

 Baron's-court, for cut ftone, -was indebted. At Du- 

 glafs, on the eaft fide of the Struel, and at the Suine, 

 on the weft fide of the fame river, are excellent free- 

 ftone quarries, capable of being moulded into any 

 Jhape ; the latter fupplied Baron's-court buildings with 

 a great quantity of cut ftone. 



At Rufkey, within a mile or two of Dunnymanagh, 

 there are immenfe quarries of limeftone, extending a 

 great length along a rivulet. This chain of limeftone 

 appears to be connected with the great limeftone 

 quarry called the Butterloop, in the midft of the Mun- 

 terloney mountains, which I {hall, in another place, 

 have an occafion to fpeak of. 



In the barony of Dungannon, about Cook's-town and 

 Stewart's-town, limeftone is in great abundance, and 

 alfo about Dungannon, and in many other parts, par- 

 ticularly at Benburb, whofe quarries appear inexhauf- 

 c 2 tible. 



