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"where they " roasted the wild deer" 1 in former times; but others 

 evidently appear to have been bloomeries, or for some such meta- 

 lurgical process. The roasted shingle is principally broken-up 

 fragments of the Ferriferous Felstones. 



To the north of Gorey, at Ballynastraw, also elsewhere in the 

 purple shales and slate of the lower portion of the Slate Series, 

 are lentils, or irregularly-bedded masses of earthy limonite ; while 

 in places along the Ballymoney cliffs are beds, of a low percentage, 

 of calybite. There are no records of these ores having been 

 worked. 



In the Ordovicians, anthracite, and in places plumbago, is 

 recorded. At the north-east mearing of the county ; in two places 

 in the Ballymoney cliffs, where they have fire-clays and carbo- 

 naceous shales associated ; at Greenfield, near Enniscorthy ; near 

 Wilton ; in Doonoony ; and near Castle Talbot ; while it is re- 

 ported to have been found in two places in the barony of Forth. 

 From trials made the veins seem to be only from one to four 

 inches wide, and of no value. Some of the best of the carbo- 

 naceous shales, if there were mines in the neighbourhood, might 

 possibly be worked advantageously as a bye-product. 



Some good specimens of asbestos are said to have been found 

 at Bloomfield, near Enniscorthy. 



Wicklow. 



To the north-east, adjoining the sea, are Cambrians ; the rest 

 of the county rocks are Ordovicians, associated with a wide intrude 

 of Granyte, part of the Leinster Granyte range. There are also 

 small detached outbursts of Granyte, while the Cambrians and 

 Ordovicians are in part metamorphosed. 



The Granytes belong to different Geological Periods. The 

 main mass is Post-Ordovician, but with it, to the southward, in 

 the parish of Shillelagh, and extending into Kildare and Carlow, 

 is a considerable tract of a very coarsely crystalline rock, which 

 might be called Pegmatyte (locally called Bastard Granyte). This 

 evidently is newer than the normal " Leinster Granyte " of 

 Haughton. In the older Granytes, also in detached intrudes, are 



1 Called Fellaght feca in the Co. Waterford. 



