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Kilkenny. 



One of the beds worked in the " Black Quarry," Kilkenny, is 

 a dark grey. In the Ballykilaboy quarry, about four miles from 

 Waterford, there is a superior stone, capable of being raised in 

 very large blocks, 17 feet by 5 feet, and 2 feet thick. 



King's County. 



At the Ballyduff quarry, near Tullamore, there is a very 

 superior stone, of grey colour, graduating into a wan dove-colour. 

 This has been very extensively used in the locality for chimney- 

 pieces and ornamental slabs. It is a beautifully clouded stone in 

 places, and seems well worthy of more public notice than it has as 

 yet received. 



Near the Seven Churches, Clonmacnoise, are the well known 

 fossiliferous crinoidal mottled-grey stones, formerly most exten- 

 sively worked at the Killaloe Marble "Works, to which they were 

 brought by water, and still very much used on account of their 

 peculiar appearance. 



Limerick. 



In this county, associated with the "reds," already enume- 

 rated, there are " greys," except at Pallaskenry. Some of these 

 reds are in part clouded, or spotted grey, or graduate into grey or 

 dove-colour. The beautiful stoue used in the cloisters at Askeaton 

 is, in general, a grey, some parts only being clouded with red or 

 ■other colours. 



Longford. 



At Ballymahon a stone has been raised which, when polished, 

 is grey, mottled with red and brown (Kane). 



TlPPERARY. 



Near Dunkerrin there were various trials made for marble. 

 One stone reported, was pale-grey nearly white ; and a second a 

 purplish-grey, or dove-colour {Kane). 



