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Scarden. Three miles from Sligo. — Hard and flinty ; durable. 

 Used for rubble and the pitched faces of the walls in the Town 

 Hall, Sligo. The dressings are of sandstone, from Mount Charles, 

 Co. Donegal. 



Oarrowroe. Two miles from Sligo. — "Works pretty freely ; is 

 durable. Used for walling and rubble in the new Convent, 

 Sligo ; the stones for the dressing being procured from Lanes- 

 borough, Co. Longford. 



[In the hills to the north-east of this county there ought to he excellent limestone 

 for all dressed purposes ; as, however, there are no quarries opened, they send to great 

 distances for stones for dressing and other cut works.] 



TIPPERARY. 



Carboniferous. 



Ballinillard. — Tipperary Town Churches. Appears to have 

 worked freely. 



TYRONE. 



Carboniferous. 



Omagh. Yicinity. — Used for rubble in the Military Barracks. 

 The sandstone used for quoins and dressing is of an inferior qua- 

 lity, being the stone known as the " Red Beds " from the Grortna- 

 glush quarry, near Duncannon, which is easily worked, but is not 

 durable (J. Cockbum). 



WATERFORD. 



Carboniferous. 



Whitechurch. — As dressings in the Churches, Dungarvan, and 

 Lismore Castle. 



Shorough. — Lismore Roman Catholic Church, with sandstone 

 dressings (W. D. Williams). 



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