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at C Cornell's Bridge — Groragli Wood granite. Pedestal of Dargan's 

 Statue, Leinster Lawn — part of a granite boulder from Ballagh, 

 Gralway. Mercer's Hospital — facings of new wing ; rough scab- 

 bled Ballyknockan granite. St. Peter's Church — new facings, 

 rough scabbled Ballyknockan granite ; dressings, sandstone. 

 New Buildings, Science and Art Museum, Kildarc-strcet — dressed 

 facings, Ballyknockan granite. Some of the stones seem to be 

 badly selected. Museum Buildings, Leinster Lawn — Dublin granite, 

 seems to have been well selected. Saint Anne's Church — facings, 

 &c, Ballyknockan, with limestone and sandstone string courses. 

 Saint Andrew's Church — rubble facing, Dublin granite, lime- 

 stone dressings. Unitarian Church, Stephen' s-green, West — 

 rough-picked Dublin granite ; facings, dressings, &c, limestone 

 and sandstone. Methodist Church, Stephen' s-green, South — columns 

 and portico. Blind Asylum Church, 8fc, Leeson Park — Buttresses, 

 cut Ballyknockan; facings, rough Dublin ; windows, &c, limestone. 

 Methodist Church, Charlestown-road, Rathmines — dressings, Bally- 

 knockan ; facings, badly selected Dublin granite. Methodist Church 

 Temple-road, Upper Rathmines. West land-row Rail/cay Station — 

 facings, dressings, &c, Ballyknockan. Trinity College, new Medical- 

 Schools and Museum — facings, dressings, &c, Ballyknockan. St. 

 Andrew's Church — Ballyknockan? and Dublin. Loop Line — caps 

 of piers and springings, Aughrim and Dublin. St. Patrick's Souse, 

 S. Circular-road — facings, a poor Dublin granite. Also string- 

 courses, wall-caps, window sills in most of the brick houses, 

 Wicklow and Dublin ; the latter, in the new structures, generally 

 badly selected. 



The stones that have been used by the Ballast Board in the 

 quays and other works have been already mentioned. 



[The granites which are principally used at the present time for cut-stone purposes 

 are from Ballyknockan, Stepaside, and Glencullen. Ballyknockan, about is. per cubic 

 foot in the rough ; carriage about 5*. per ton ; all cartage by road ; about 1 1 cubic feet 

 to the ton. Stepaside — sills 1*. id. per lineal foot, in squared blocks, about 2s. Gd. ; 

 cost of working into sills, steps, quoins, &c, about 1*. 2d. for Stepaside, and Is. Gd. 

 for Ballyknockan ; moulds and chamfering, about 1*. 3d. more for working Ballyknockan 

 than Stepaside. All cornices, string-coui - ses, sills, columns, &c, extra to cubic dimen- 

 sions. Aberdeen sent only wrought, price about double Ballyknockan. Goragh Wood 

 mostly used for monumental purposes. {R. Clarke.) ] 



The employment of a bad- class of Dublin granite, especially in 

 the new buildings in the suburbs, cannot be too highly censured. 



