Lissyviggeen Limestone Quarry (Yellow Quarry) 
Heritage Site(s)
- County:
- Kerry
- Townland:
- Lissyviggeen
- Status:
- Closed
- Primary Rock Type:
- Limestone
- Start Date:
- 1757
Notes:
A disused quarry located between the Killarney Main Railway line and the right bank of the River Flesk.
Operating from as early as 1757 when Lord Kenmare laid a road from the quarry to that at Maserati, twelve miles away to allow his tenants reasonably close access to the quarries (Kenmare Manuscripts, p. 201). At the time most of the output was burnt for lime. By 1762, Lord Kenmare leased it to Richard Linnegar of Castle Logh for 24.5 years in return for delivery to his tenants of stone and burnt lime (Kenmare Manuscripts, p. 439).
In 1845 the estimated cost of delivery to Killarney was 7.3d per superficial foot (Wilkinson, 1845, p. 166). According to Kinahan (1889, p. 179) the quarry and that at Cahirnagher supplied Killarney with cut and rubble stone.
It became known locally as the Yellow Quarry on account of yellow clay found adjacent to the river (Anon. National Folklore Collection, 1937).
The quarry yielded both Waulsortian Limestone and the overlying Cloonagh Limestone that contained brachiopods.