- Material:
- Limestone
- Category:
- Carbonate, Sedimentary
- Colour:
- Light bluish-Grey
- Grain/Crystal Size:
- Medium
- Place of origin:
- Meath, Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Platin Formation
- Geological Age:
- Carboniferous, Dinantian, Late Arundian-Asbian
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- PT
- Context of Use:
- Ashlar and dressed stone.
- Related Material (same rock unit):
- Platin Limestone, Sheephouse Limestone
Notes:
The quarry is situated just north of the Sheephouse quarry and contains the same stone type. The limestone is a crinoidal, peloidal grainstone-packstone with brachiopods and corals.References
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