Granite

We own and operate a Granite Quarry in Granabeg, Valleymount, Co. Wicklow with reserves of 800,000 tonnes. The granite is known in the industry as Wicklow White and the granite is mainly of a pale silver/grey fine to medium uniform texture, hard, with a predominance of grey quartz and white feldspar speckled with black mica. We also have brown “weathered” granite. Weight is 2610kg per cubic metre.

Granite Products Supplied

• Gravel chippings, used extensively in gardens for paving,driveways & shrub beds
• Obelisks which are used for signs to housing estates and houses
• Boulders which are used for water features and rockeries
• Random rubble for wall building. Under normal circumstances 8 square meters of wall building can be achieved per tonne of random rubble
• The raw material for crushing into “dust” for the reconstituted stone industry

Towards the end of 2005 we expect to be supplying semi prepared stone which is guillotined and of rough regular shape. We have exported our granite to Pisani in England and John Fyfe in Scotland as dimensional block for cutting, polishing and processing.

Notable Buildings using Granite from our Quarry

• American Embassy in Ballsbridge Dublin
• Halfpenny bridge enroute to gates B at Dublin Airport
• Roast House, Guinness’s Brewery, Dublin 8

You are welcome to visit our granite quarry. Please don’t hesitate to contact us to arrange an appointment with one of our granite experts.