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Golden Hill quarry

1740 establishments in IrelandHistory of County WicklowLabour history of IrelandQuarriesSurface mines in the Republic of Ireland
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Golden Hill quarry, is a former granite quarry on Golden Hill, adjacent to the village of Manor Kilbride, County Wicklow, Ireland. Its exact coordinates are unknown. Dr. Patrick Wyse Jackson, curator of the Geological Museum at Trinity College Dublin, hypothesised that the Golden Hill granite was so named due to it having been partially weathered in situ, with the result that the "slightly altered feldspars" gave the rock "a brownish hue". When the quarry was exhausted sometime between 1820 and 1850, the associated workers moved to Ballyknockan a short distance away where a complex of granite quarries were founded.

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N 53.198 ° E -6.4788 °
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D24 X52N (Kilbride)
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