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Lisaviggeen and Cahirnagher. About three miles from Killarney ■> 

 — Grey, crystalline, even-grained, bard, but works well. Theso- 

 quarries chiefly supply Killarney with all cut and rubble stone. 



Listoivel. — Dark-grey, compact, earthy ; works freely. This 

 quarry has been largely worked for years, supplying stone to all the 

 neighbourhood. The upper beds are a bad-class stone, but the lower 

 are fit for any purpose, and with care can be raised of large sizes. 



Ballinageragh. — Six miles west of Listowel. Dark-grey to black. 

 Good for all cut-stone purposes. One bed black, mottled with white, 

 was formerly worked for marble. 



Bathos (Tralee). — A coarse, cherty stone, but useful for rough 

 squared work. 



B ally maceUi got. — About six miles from Tralee. Bluish-grey, 

 close-grained; partly earthy; f ree- working ; has been very exten- 

 sively used in Tralee in the public and private buildings. 



Good and cheap lime is made from the Carboniferous limestone. 

 The Ordovician limestones of Caherconree, Dingle promontory, are 

 also used for lime. 



Kildare. 



Although most of this county is situated in the great Carbo- 

 niferous tract of the central plain, none of the limestones that have 

 been quarried are particularly well suited for cut-stone purposes,, 

 the best stones being procured near Celbridge and Leixlip, ad- 

 joining the Co. Dublin — stones that have been already described. 

 Here, as elsewhere, all the quarries that have been opened are in 

 stones of the Calp type, except those near Slade and Sallins, which r 

 however, have been almost entirely worked for the purpose of 

 being sent to the Dublin market for burning into lime. 



Lime is very plentiful and good, the Calpy stone being in. 

 general burnt, or else boulders got in the Drift. At the Chair of 

 Kildare there are Ordovician limestones, which are also burnt ;. 

 but the lime from the Carboniferous limestone is preferred. 



Kilkenny. 



In Kilkenny there is a considerable area of Carboniferous 

 limestone, the rock in many places being of a class fitted for all 

 cut-stone purposes. The ordinary stone is usually in shades of 

 dark-grey and blue, varying from close-grained to open-grained,. 



