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Cutting through stone like a hot knife through butter!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Swordscookie said:
    First sight of this would tell me that it is a Stone Crushing machine rather than a stone cutting machine. The mound of gravel and the mound of dust would seem to indicate that it is a crusher. On top of that it seems to be a long way from any significant rock face where you would expect cutting to take place?
  • John Spooner said:
    I don't know how relevant it is to this picture, but on 6th June 1928, three weeks after it was taken, the following appeared in the Waterford Standard
    INTERESTING QUARRYING EXPERIMENTS. Interesting experiments with new machine which drills through limestone by means or compressed air have been made by Mr. J. E. Bowen, B.E., County Surveyor, Waterford. By its use holes were drilled to a depth of 25 feet in the solid rock in 40 minutes, only two men being engaged at the engine. Gelignite was then inserted, and it is calculated that in one explosion there was quarried up 6,000 tons of limestone, all broken into different sized blocks. Mr. Bowen believes the machine will be most valuable in connection with road-making work in the country.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    16 May 1928 was a Wednesday ...
  • Swordscookie said:
    In the 1911 census there are Jephsons living on the Dock Road in Waterford. George Hastings Jephson senior and junior and John Hastings Jephson were the men and probably the owner was one of those?
  • Edward Newton said:
    This is an excellent Black and white Photo. Seen in Black & White Unlimited (pool)
    Your photo deserves a compliment from the special fish!!!
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    Please be sure your photo is TAGGED "Black & White"

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Portraits of activities at Penrhyn Quarry, its apprentices and railway

from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

The Giants Ring in Kenmare

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Indicated but not named on the OSI 25" map: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,490651,570775,12,9 The lime kiln in this photo is marked to the NE of the stone circle. www.theringofkerry.com/kenmare-stone-circle
  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google photosphere.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Link hostile entry in the NIAH says: Description: In level pasture, on the SW outskirts of Kenmare town and centrally placed within a multiple-stone circle (KE093-032001-). A rounded boulder with a flattish top (2.1m x 1.8m; T 0.8m) rests above three support-stones, which form a small chamber-like arrangement open at E. Support-stones are of rather similar dimensions, averaging 0.9m x 0.6m and 0.2m H. The boulder rests directly on the stones at N and S, and on a small pad-stone above the support-stone at W. There is a small cupmark on the upper surface of the boulder. (Ó Nualláin 1978, 96, no. 36)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Holy Cross church no help, dates from 1863.