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■wards was in a great measure superseded by limestone. Bishop's 

 "Wood, near Fermoy, supplies flags. 



Glanmire Road, Cork. — A deep-red, fine-grained stone. 



Templegall, or Whitechurch, seven miles north-west of Cork. — 

 Good building stones and flags. 



Toughal. — A red stone, lighter in colour than the Cork stone. 



In places there is a conglomerate (trappean), which can be 

 worked into good square blocks, best suited for heavy work, such as 

 bridges, foundation walls, and the like. 



Carboniferous. — In this formation there are sandstones and 

 grits at the base ( Yellow Sandstone) ; and higher up in the Carbonife- 

 rous Slate, at different horizons, are the Coomhoola grits. In places 

 many good stones could be procured, but they are not much sought 

 ufter, being hard and silicious, and quickly wearing the workman's 

 tools. 



A good freestone has been worked on Horse Island ; also near 

 Castletownsend ; while, in the Devonshire property, near Ban don, 

 and in the Herrick estate, Innishannon, there are extensive 

 quarries. 



In the parish of Brinny, north-east of Bandon, are flags of ex- 

 cellent quality, and in Kilbrogan there is freestone that has been 

 extensively used in Bandon. 



A little north of Cork, on the north of the River Lee, the stones 

 in the quarries vary. They are thus described by Wilkinson : — 

 Yellowish-white, close, compact quartzy grains, with felspathic 

 cement, and semi- vitreous ; also, green, silicious, close, dense, very 

 compact, but with numerous fissures and bedded portions, the 

 latter causing the stone to fail. 



Bellevieio Quarry. Near Cork. — A good and free-working 

 stone ; but the workmen prefer the limestone, to which they are 

 accustomed. 



Coolconing. Two and a-half miles north of Kinsale. — Yellowish, 

 brown, and discoloured, silicious, open, small imbedded particles of 

 slate ; cuts fairly well. 



Shippool. Kinsale. — Yellow-shaded green ; semi-granular and 

 quartzose ; slightly calcareous. 



Ballymartel. Kinsale. — Stones varying ; best, yellow, fine- 

 grained, compact, but slightly micaceous. 



Coal-measures {BaJlinaquila. South-w r est of Dromina). — A 

 quarry of good flags, and quarries of sandstone. 



