- Material:
- Limestone
- Category:
- Carbonate, Sedimentary
- Colour:
- Dark Grey
- Place of origin:
- Tipperary, Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Ballysteen Limestone Formation
- Geological Age:
- Carboniferous
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- BA
- Related Material (same rock unit):
- Chapelstown Limestone, Mount St Joseph Limestone, Pallaskenry Marble, Mountmellick Limestone, Ballytarsna Limestone, Balnagall Sandstone, Ballyellin Limestone
Notes:
A dark-grey muddy limestone. Kinahan (1887, p. 192) remarked 'that this appears to be the stone with which Holycross Abbey was built.' This seems surprising as the abbey is 5 km southwest of Thurles and is located on an area of limestone which itself was quarried extensively from the 1830s onwards if not before.References
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