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Connemara marble or "Irish green" is a rare variety of green marble from Connemara, Ireland. It is used as a decoration and building material. It is used as a decoration and building material. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its colour causes it to often be associated with the Irish identity, and for this reason it has been named the national gemstone of Ireland.
Richard III's tomb, of Swaledale white limestone on a Kilkenny black marble plinth. Kilkenny marble or Kilkenny black marble is a fine-grained very dark grey carboniferous limestone found around County Kilkenny in Ireland in the "Butlersgrove Formation", a Lower Carboniferous limestone that contains fossils of brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids and corals. [1]
This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).
The Killycluggin Stone is a decorated stone, found near the town of Killycluggin, County Cavan, in Ireland. Roughly cone-shaped and covered in Iron Age La Tène designs, [ 1 ] it was discovered broken in several pieces, partly buried close to a Bronze Age stone circle, inside which it probably once stood. [ 2 ]
The Castlestrange stone 3D model. The Castlestrange stone is located in the grounds of "Castlestrange House" near Athleague in County Roscommon, Ireland. [1] It is a granite boulder decorated with flowing spirals in the La Tène style, dating from the Iron Age period between 300 BC and 100 AD.
Four stones found in County Wexford, Ireland, known as the “Marigold Stones of Wexford'' have been found to have similar motifs from similar ones across the sea in Wales. The Irish stones are from Kilmuckridge , an old monastic site which used to be called Cill Mucrois. [ 8 ]
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As late as the 19th century, stones from Ireland were considered efficacious against snake-bites in northern England, presumably because Ireland is famously free of snakes. Apparently any stone would do, so long as it came from Ireland; failing that, Irish sticks and Irish horse-teeth would work, and live cattle from Ireland were also believed ...