384- Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 



KlLDARE. 



At Celbridge is a stone recorded by Sir R. Kane, but it does 

 not appear to have been worked to any extent, and its existence is 

 generally now ignored. 



Limerick. 



Red marbles ("reds") have been more worked in this county 

 than in any other except the Co. Cork. This may possibly be due 

 to the action of the late Earl of Dunraven, who, during the erection 

 of Adare Manor, seems to have searched the counties Limerick and 

 Clare for " reds," specimens of which can be seen in different por- 

 tions of the edifice, some having been used in outside work, while 

 most of them are represented in the chimney-pieces and in orna- 

 mental slabs used for decoration. 



In general the "Limerick reds" are clear-coloured, varying 

 from shady or coloured red to variegated, with grey, green, yellow 

 and other tinges ; this, however, is not the case in the Pallaskenry 

 rock, which is of the type known as the " Cork reds." This rock 

 was extensively used by Lord Clarina when building his new 

 mansion, and by Lord Dunraven at Adare Manor. 



At Clorhane, two and a-half miles north of Adare, half a mile 

 west of Stone Hall, immediately west and north-west of the old 

 church, also half a mile to the west, and half a mile to the south- 

 west of the new church, are quarries which were open and worked 

 during the erection of Adare Manor. In these places, except at 

 Clorhane, the works were of small extent, only a few blocks being 

 removed to be worked into slabs for chimney-pieces. At Clorhane, 

 however, all the " red " was taken away, but some years after- 

 wards the grey stone below began to assume the red colour. 



Other places in this county, in which red rocks are recorded, 

 are, a little east of the ruins of the ancient church, to the N. E. of 

 Clorhane Bridge, and in the railway cutting south of Askeaton, a 

 pinkish-greyish stone, in places yellowish, was used for the beauti- 

 ful pillars of the cloisters of Askeaton Abbey, built by the Earls of 

 Desmond (Greraldines) in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. The 

 exact places where this stone was procured is now unknown, but it 

 evidently came from some place in the neighbourhood. 



