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TIPPERARY. 



Pipe-clay. — Loughloheny and Ballymacadam, south-east of 

 Cahir ; pipe-clay, associated with lignite. Formerly it sold freely 

 on market-days in Clonmel, Cahir, &c, principally for cleaning 

 soldiers' belts, &c. ; it was also exported as Potter's clay. 



Potter's Clay. — Killenaule. 



Bricks. — One mile north-west of Cashel, as pointed out by 

 'Kelly, bricks are made from a bed of shale at the base of the 

 Coal-measures. " The shale is dug up and exposed to the air, 

 when it rapidly decomposes into a kind of tenacious yellow 

 clay."— (g. s. m.) 20s. to 25s. per 1000 ; 9}x 4£ x 2£; weight, 

 6 lbs. Near Clonmel, 30s. ; 9 x 4 x 3 ; weight, 6 lbs. Near 

 Nenagh, about 25s. ; 9 x 4} x 3 ; weight, 6 lbs. Drumakeem, four 

 miles from Eoscrea, 22s. ; 9 x 4 x 3 ; weight, 6f lbs. On the 

 banks of the Suir, about one mile from Thurles, 20s. ; 9x4{x 3; 

 weight, 6f lbs. Near Tipperary, a poor red brick, 25s. ; 9x4x3; 

 weight, 7^- lbs. 



Fire-clay. — In the Tipperary, or East Munster Coal Field, the 

 fire-clays do not seem to have been as well developed as in 

 Leinster ; neither do they appear to have been utilized. 



TYRONE. 



Potter's Clay, manufactured into good flooring- and ridge- 

 tiles, coarse earthenware, and flower-pots, at Moy and Killy- 

 moon. 



" About Fintona good flooring- and ridge-tiles are made ; also 

 garden-pots and a great variety of crockery ware for country 

 useS'—^'Parland, 1802.) 



In the drift in the vicinity of Coal Island and Lough Neagh 

 there are clays which, according to Hardman, are suitable for 

 brick-making ; but at the same time he points out that the bricks 



