- Material:
- Limestone
- Category:
- Carbonate, Sedimentary
- Alternative name(s):
- Clare Red Marble, Clare Marble
- Colour:
- Peach-Grey
- Colour variation:
- Variegated
- Place of origin:
- Clare, Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Waulsortian Limestone
- Geological Age:
- Carboniferous, Dinantian, Tournaisian-Lower Visean
- Fossils:
- bryozoans
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- WA
- Related Material (same rock unit):
- Carrigacrump Limestone, Clonmacnoise Marble, Clonony Marble, Cloonagh (Clonagh) Limestone, Clorane (Clorhane) Limestone, Cratloe (Crattloe) Limestone, Donoman (Dunnaman) Limestone, Howth Marble, Kilbreedy Limestone, Limerick Red Marble, Lismore Castle Limestone, Moneen Marble, Muckross Red Marble, Rathkeale (Commons) Limestone, Saleen Limestone, Shandon Limestone, Tralee Limestone, Tuogh Limestone, Waulsortian Limestone (undifferentiated), Whitechurch Limestone
Notes:
Wackestone/Packstone. Capable of receiving a polish. Fenestella limestone. Worked as marble and for ornamental purposes in Adare Manor. Well shaped blocks could not be directly quarried but good sized stones could be raised which were scabbled (shaped to square) into fair sized blocks.
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