Stone Library
54 natural stones from Ireland, the UK and the United States. What each one is, what it is like to build with, and who works it.
Stones of Ireland and the UK
Quarried across the island of Ireland and Great Britain, and mostly sold within it.
FeaturedCo. Wicklow, Ireland
Wicklow Granite
The stone that built Dublin, silver-grey granite from the Garden of Ireland
FeaturedDonegal, Ireland
Donegal Quartzite
Silver-white metamorphic stone from the wild Atlantic coast
FeaturedSomerset & Wiltshire, England
Bath Stone
England's golden limestone, quarried underground and the stone Georgian Bath is built from
FeaturedKilkenny, Ireland
Kilkenny Blue Limestone
Quarried mid-grey, polished blue-black: Ireland's dark interior limestone
FeaturedCo. Galway, Ireland
Connemara Marble
Ireland's only true marble, ancient green stone from the wild heart of Connemara
FeaturedCo. Clare, Ireland
Liscannor Stone
Fossil wave ripples on every split face, quarried from the beds that form the Cliffs of Moher
FeaturedGwynedd, North Wales
Welsh Slate
The slate that roofed a nation, fine-grained, durable, and unmistakably Welsh
FeaturedIsle of Portland, Dorset, England
Portland Stone
The stone of Wren's London, a creamy white limestone that weathers lighter rather than darker
South Wales
Pennant Stone
South Wales' hard grey sandstone, the stone that built the valleys and still paves their streets
Beer, Devon, England
Beer Stone
Devon's soft white stone, fine-grained, easily carved, and the carved interior of Exeter Cathedral
Rutland, England
Clipsham Stone
Rutland's golden oolitic limestone, the stone chosen to restore the Houses of Parliament and countless English country houses
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
Forest of Dean Stone
Gloucestershire's Pennant sandstone, one of the darkest natural sandstones quarried in England
Ireland
Irish Limestone
The bedrock of Irish architecture, warm grey limestone quarried across the island for over a thousand years
Co. Antrim & Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
Irish Basalt
Near-black volcanic rock from the Antrim plateau, the hardest-wearing stone on the island
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Aberdeen Granite
The granite Aberdeen is built from, silver-grey with a mica sparkle that catches the light
County Durham, England
Dunhouse Buff
Durham's warm buff sandstone, even enough in colour to match across a whole ashlar elevation
West Yorkshire & South Yorkshire, England
Yorkstone
Britain's most widely used paving stone, a warm gritty sandstone with natural grip in the wet
Wicklow & Donegal, Ireland
Irish Granite
Speckled grey and pink hard stone from the Wicklow and Donegal plutons
Kent, England
Kentish Ragstone
Kent's grey-green sandstone, quarried for the Roman wall of London and still the county's walling stone
Ireland & Belgium
Blue Limestone
Irish and Belgian dark grey limestone that reads blue once honed, dense enough to take a polish
Derbyshire, England
Hopton Wood Stone
The English limestone that takes a true polish, cut for cathedral interiors and war graves
Lincolnshire, England
Ancaster Stone
Lincolnshire's golden limestone: a warm, durable freestone with a 2,000-year history in the English heartlands
Cornwall, England
Cornish Granite
The stone of Land's End, a rugged, warm-toned granite shaped by Atlantic weather and deep Cornish identity
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, India
Indian Sandstone
The stone that paved modern Britain: cheap, calibrated, and worth asking questions about
Yorkshire, England
Yorkstone Reclaimed
Centuries of character, warm golden sandstone from England's North
Cotswolds, England
Cotswold Stone
Honey-gold oolitic limestone, and the stone Cotswold planning authorities require inside conservation areas
Caithness, Scotland
Caithness Stone
Scotland's ancient flagstone, silver-grey Old Red Sandstone flags from the far north
Cumbria, England
Cumbrian Green Slate
Lake District green stone, metamorphosed volcanic ash rather than mud, which is where the green comes from
Co. Down, Northern Ireland
Mourne Granite
Northern Ireland's mountain granite, silver-grey and cooler in tone than Wicklow
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Purbeck Stone
Dorset's ancient limestone: England's most historically significant freestone, quarried since Roman times
Stones of the United States
Quarried across the US, from Pennsylvania bluestone to Texas Lueders limestone.
Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Tennessee, USA
Tennessee Crab Orchard Sandstone
The Cumberland Plateau's tan-and-gold flagstone, the Southeast's default native stone
Sullivan, Delaware, Greene & Ulster counties, southern Catskills, New York, USA
New York Bluestone
The Catskill side of the bluestone belt: same formation as Pennsylvania bluestone
Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA (Hartford Basin)
Connecticut Brownstone
Portland Brownstone, the red sandstone of pre-1900 New York and Boston rowhouses
Northeastern Pennsylvania & Catskills, USA
Pennsylvania Bluestone
Devonian-age sandstone from the Catskill belt, the Northeast US default flagstone
Lawrence & Monroe counties, south-central Indiana, USA
Indiana Limestone
The dimension stone of American civic architecture: Salem Formation, Bedford-Bloomington belt
Shackelford & Throckmorton counties, Texas, USA
Texas Lueders Limestone
Cream and pearl limestone from the Lueders Formation: Texas native dimension stone
Rutland County, Vermont (with Washington County, NY across the state line)
Vermont Slate
The US slate belt: unfading greens, purples, and grays from the Taconic mountains
Coconino & Yavapai counties, Arizona, USA
Arizona Flagstone
Red, gold, and buff Permian sandstone from the Coconino Plateau, the Southwest US default flagstone
Madera & Fresno counties, central California, USA (Sierra Nevada foothills)
California Sierra White Granite
From the Sierra Nevada Batholith, the domestic California granite alternative to imported slab
Pickens County, north Georgia, USA (Tate, Marble Hill, Jasper area)
Georgia Marble
The Pickens County belt: pink Etowah, white Georgia, and the dominant US monumental stone
Rutland County, Vermont, USA (Proctor, Danby, West Rutland, Brandon belt)
Vermont Marble
Danby and Imperial, the domestic US white marble, from a single underground quarry in Rutland County
Knox and Blount Counties, East Tennessee, USA
Tennessee Pink Marble
The rose-colored stone of Washington's monuments, and not geologically a marble at all
Mitchell, Yancey & McDowell counties, western North Carolina, USA (Spruce Pine Mining District)
North Carolina Mica Schist
Spruce Pine mica schist, the Appalachians shimmering metamorphic building stone
West Texas, north-central Texas and the Austin area, USA
Texas Limestone
Not one stone but three quarrying belts, and the strongest is over three times the weakest
Waukesha County, southeastern Wisconsin, USA
Lannon Stone
The buff stone Milwaukee is built from, and a dolomite rather than the limestone it gets called
Dorset Mountain, Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Danby Marble
Cut a mile and a half inside a Vermont mountain, and thin enough at Yale to glow
Kasota and Mankato, southern Minnesota, USA
Kasota Stone
Minnesota's buff and pink dolomite, sold as limestone, and now worked by a single quarrier
Marble, Crystal River Valley, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
Yule Marble
The 99.5% pure white marble of the Lincoln Memorial, quarried underground at 9,000 feet
Berea, Amherst and Vermilion, northern Ohio, USA
Berea Sandstone
The stone that built Cleveland and became the oil industry's laboratory yardstick
Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Stony Creek Granite
The pink stone under the Statue of Liberty, and geologically a gneiss rather than a granite
Sold in both markets
Traded internationally, or a whole category rather than one quarry, so you will find these on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tuscany, Italy
Carrara Marble
Pure white Italian marble from the Apuan Alps, worked continuously for two thousand years
Ireland & UK
Sandstone
Warm, workable, and versatile, the classic paving and walling stone of Ireland and the UK
Denizli, Turkey and Tivoli, Italy
Travertine
Freshwater limestone full of holes, and the most misunderstood stone on an American patio
Ireland, Wales & Scotland
Slate
Metamorphic rock that splits into thin flat sheets, the roofing and paving stone of the British Isles
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