Material Details

Material:: Sandstone
Category:: Siliciclastic, Sedimentary
Colour:: Yellowish-Grey
Grain/Crystal Size:: Medium
Place of origin:: Cavan, Ireland
Rock Unit Name:: Ulster Canal Formation
Geological Age:: Carboniferous, Dinantian, Courceyan
GSI Rock Unit Code:: UC
Context of Use:: Dressed stone.

Notes:

Silicious, durable, easily worked and extensively used in Cavan town (Kinahan 1889, p. 238). Marine sandstone unit and 'shaly pales and pale beds', that is silty and sandy limestones that are variably fossiliferous with occasional parallel and cross-laminations and some fine-grained limestones (GSI).

Pale yellow-grey stone front of neoclassical building — Front elevation, Cavan Courthouse, with tetrastyle portico of Latt Sandstone

Corner view of a building — Cavan Courthouse, south corner, with view of front facade in Latt Sandstone and side elevation in Drumelis Limestone

Side view of columns of a portico — Side view of Latt Standstone facade and portico, Cavan Courthouse

Yellowish-grey stone wall — Latt Sandstone, front facade of Cavan Courthouse

Close up of a yellowish grey building stone with laminations — Detail of Latt Standstone from front facade of Cavan Courthouse

Window with yellowish-grey stone surround and set in a grey stone wall — Grey drumelis Limestone squared rubble wall and window dressings in yellowish-grey Latt Sandstone, southwest side of Cavan Courthouse

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Latt Sandstone

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