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in trade, only a few out of the great number of quarries at one 

 time in work are now profitable. The best " blacks" only will be 

 received in the London market : formerly there was a competition 

 for them between it and the American market. 



Carlow. 

 In the town of Carlow two quarries were formerly worked, one 

 at Montgomery-street, and the other in the townland of Crossnear, 

 the latter being in the suburb called Graigue, west of the river 

 Barrow, in the Queen's County. In the Montgomery-street quarry 

 there were four beds, 7 inches, 2 feet, 3 feet, and 18 inches thick, 

 the thin beds giving the best marble. In the Graigue quarry there 

 was 5 feet in thickness of a stone, that was worked for tombstones, 

 and sent to the Dublin and Waterf ord markets ; and under it were 

 nearly 2 feet of superior black stone. In the Carlow quarry, the 

 limestone over the 18-inch bed could also be used for work of a 

 similar nature. Carlow was once famous for its tombstones, and 

 at the present time the trade is still carried on, very creditable 

 work being sent out from the stonecutters' yards ; but it has sadly 

 fallen off from what it once was ; this being, in a great measure, 

 due to the fact that sandstone monuments are now most in 

 requisition. 



Royal Oaks. — A little more than a mile west of Bagnalstown 

 there is a large quarry, in which marble was procured ; and a 

 second further north, nearly a mile south-west of Killinane House. 

 In both these places stones for black marble were, in time past, 

 extensively worked, some being fit for the London trade. 



Ballynabrannagh, northward of Milford. — A good black marble 

 was formerly procured in this quarry. 



Clogrenan. — There is here a quarry in limestone, immediately 

 under the coal-measures. One bed is a good black, partly spotted 

 with white. It has not been very extensively used. The columns 

 in the hall at Clogrenan House were cut out of this stone. 



Donegal. 



As mentioned by Kane, in his Industrial Resources of Ireland, 

 there is in Kintale, to the north of Rathmullen, a black bed of 

 imestone that has been worked as a marble. It, however, is of 

 such small dimensions as not to be of commercial value. 



