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be employed — men who can use their own judgment, and are not solely depending on 

 the architect ; so that on this score there will he no great difference as to expense. 



It appears, therefore, as has been proved at the Ballyknockan and other granite 

 works in the Leinster range of hills, that the cutting and dressing of the stones can be 

 more economically performed at the quarry than at the edifice which is being erected. 



All the stonecutters in Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny, and Wexford, seem to be also 

 smiths, having their small forges in which they repair their jumpers, chisels, hammers, 

 wedges, &c; the tools blunted during a day's work being renovated at night, to be ready 

 for use next day.] 



The principal granite structures in Dublin, when Wilkinson 

 wrote in 1845, were the Parliament House, at present used as the 

 offices of the Bank of Ireland, flanking walls. Trinity College — 

 new buildings, Co. Wicklow granite ; upper part of Library re- 

 faced with similar rock in place of sandstone (later about 18 

 rows of columns of Wicklow granite were erected in the open 

 corridors beneath the Library to support its floor.) Post Office — 

 facings, Dublin and Wicklow granite. Rotunda — Wicklow and 

 Kilgobbin granite ; the latter in bad preservation. King's Inns — 

 facings, Wicklow granite. Four Courts — facings from Golden Hill 

 and Kilbride, Co. Wicklow ; entrance-gate and walls, Co. Dublin 

 granite ; this last now much decayed. Custom House — some of the 

 facings in chiselled granite, in good preservation. Castle — entrance- 

 gate and some of the dressings, much decayed. Nelson's Pillar 

 and the Wellington Testimonial — Glencullen and Kilgobbin granites 

 which seem to have been well selected, and have stood well. (The 

 O'Connell Monument, Glasnevin, was also of Glencullen granite, 

 selected by Jukes.) St. George's Church — walls faced with Dublin 

 granite. St. Paul's Church — Glencullen stone. St. Werburgh's 

 Church — columns, &c, which are much decaj^ed. St. Thomas's 

 Church — dressings and facings. Metropolitan Church, Marlborough 

 street — faced with Dublin granite. St. Francis Xavier's and St. 

 Paul's — porticos, entablatures, pediments, towers, &c, Bally- 

 knockan, Co. Wicklow. Wilkinson specially calls attention to the 

 very good examples of Grecian, Ionic, and Roman Ionic work in 

 the capitals of the pillars of these structures. Since 1845 granite 

 has been used in the following buildings as well as in others : — 



Stock Exchange, Anglesea-street — Ballyknockan. Gate Piers, 

 St. Stephen s-green — Ballyknockan. North Wall Branch of Bank 

 of Ireland — Ballyknockan ; colours very uniform. Porch at 

 National Insurance Office, Dame-street — Ballyknockan. Fountain 



