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CORK. 



Glanmire Quarry. — Good, rich, red, capital building-stone, even 

 ■when set on edge. In many fine buildings this stone has been 

 used, such as the following in the city of Cork : — SS. Peter and 

 Paul's Church and Convent ; Soman Catholic Cathedral ; St. 

 Vincent's Church and Convent, Sunday's Well ; Dominican Con- 

 vent, Pope's-quay ; St. Mary-of-the-Isle Convent New Orphanage ; 

 the Incurable Hospital, and others. All these buildings have 

 limestone dressings. Most of the brown stone flags used in Cork 

 have been procured here, while the bottom bed, a greenish-grey 

 hard stone, is used for macadamizing. Smaller quarries to the 

 northward of the city with the same class of stone. St. Luke's 

 Church, lately burnt down, was built of a duller stone from the 

 quarry north of the Police Barracks. The Police Court, and many 

 other buildings, are built of sandstone, with limestone dressings. 

 (R. W. Johnson.) 



Eostellan, near Midleton. Good sand, formerly used in the 

 glasshouses, Cork. 



DONEGAL. 



Dromkeelan, near Mount Charles. — This stone, lately brought 

 prominently forward, has a good character if set on its natural bed ; 

 but if set on edge it is friable and peels off. 



Glenalla, a little north of the church-green. — The stone rises in 

 large blocks ; punches well. Used in the foundation and lower 

 courses of the church and Glebe House. (F. M'Fadden.) 



Creeve, north-west of Kathmullen. — Good scythe-stones. 



At different places in the tracts of quartzite and sandstone that 

 extend from Lough Swilly, near Eathmullen, to and bej^ond 

 Eamelton, there are beds of a sound stone which rises in large, 

 squarish blocks ; very suitable for rough walling, as also for sea- 

 walls, foundations, and coping of bridges. 



Margining Ballymastocker Bay, Lough Swilly, there are dunes 

 of seolian drift : these are principally composed of highly calcareous 

 sand, very valuable as a manure. It ought to be much more 

 utilised than it is at present, as it could be easily carried by boat 

 to great distances. 



