Kinahan — On Irish Marbles and Limestones. 397 



WHITE and RED MARBLES. 



[Sometimes tinted, or clouded, with grey, pink, or green ; in general coarsely 

 crystalline ; rarely fine-grained and compact-] 



Donegal. 



In the promontory of Fanad, north of Kindrum Lough, and 

 immediately west of Lord Leitrim's lodge, is a white stone, partly 

 coarsely crystalline and in part compact. It has not been opened 

 into ; but a specimen from the surface gave unsatisfactory results. 



Immediately east of the south arm of Sheephaven, in the 

 townland of Drumlackagh, is a considerable thickness of limestone 

 of white to grey tints, some of it being massive, the rest flaggy. 

 Its qualifications for marble have not been tested. 



To the eastward of Dunfanaghy, at Marble Hill (Glaisheen), 

 the stone is white or rose-tinted. It is capable of receiving a good 

 polish — crystalline and slightly schistose. 



At Ballymore, four miles from Dunfanaghy, there is a creamy- 

 white stone, in plaoes clouded with brown or having brown por- 

 tions. It polishes well, and has been worked as a marble of a 

 pleasing character. 



At Kinclevin, nearly a mile from Dunfanaghy, there is a 

 greyish-white stone not very promising. 



Lewis mentions a superior " white marble " in the Rosses, 

 " capable of being raised in large blocks." This ought to be some- 

 where to the north of Grweedore ; but the locality has not been 

 satisfactorily localized. 



Six miles E. S. E. of Gweedore Hotel, at Dunlewy, there is a 

 large limestone quarry. The stone is white to creamy-white, 

 tinted with green and pink. It has been used both as building- 

 stone and as marble. The " whites " are coarse, but durable ; the 

 others are beautiful stones, but so thin-bedded and jointed that it is 

 impossible to raise them, except in pieces of small dimensions, which 

 renders it of little commercial value. As the quarry has been 

 worked only along the surface of the bed, rarely twenty feet deep, 

 it is possible that better stones might be got at some depth, espe- 

 cially at the western end. 



