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“Stay close to Nature; it will never fail you.”

Irish Blue Limestone, one of Ireland’s most precious resources, has been treasured and used for centuries. This charismatic and multi-faceted stone has many destinies, from the centre-pieces of contemporary home design to the principal theme of architectural projects from rural Ireland to downtown Manhattan.

Within these pages, we introduce our extensive range of Irish Blue Limestone products, individually rendered in a number of high-precision quality finishes. Various shade and finish combinations tease the stone into its many expressions of colour and texture, as it courts the light and develops in complexity with time. Welcome to the beauty of Irish Blue Limestone.

Irish Hunger Memorial, New York

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INTRODUCT ION

The story of Irish Blue Limestone begins long before the Ages of Man or the Age of the Dinosaurs, during what is called the ‘Age of the Crinoids’, some 340 million years ago.

In the warm, shallow, tropical seas that once extended across much of what we know today as north-east Europe, sea life and calcium carbonate crystallised over time to form the sedimentary rock with its characteristic coral strata, crinoid, brachiopod and gastropod fossils. There it remained for hundreds of millions of years until Europe’s settlers began to conceive of building robust and timeless structures.

The story of this material tracks the development of civilisation in Ireland. Blue limestone was used by the Neolithic people to construct monuments in a time

before the Pyramids of Egypt were first imagined. As society developed, the stone was utilized for the more sophisticated means of carving and is seen in Ireland’s famed Celtic crosses.

A technically superior building material, the stone’s elegant and timeless qualities have been consistently celebrated in Irish architecture from ancient monasteries and abbeys to the castles and houses of chieftains and lords. This is a tradition that continues through to the modern day.

Fully appreciating the rarity and uniqueness of this stone, Kilkenny Limestone has dedicated itself to its correct and appropriate usage in contributing to the great buildings and landscapes of our modern age.

LIMESTONE RICH AREA


THE STORY OF IR ISH BLUE L IMESTONE


BlocksThrough the wise selection of the different grades of Irish Blue Limestone, the material can be utilised in a wide range of applications. Blocks of Irish Blue Limestone are available for shipping worldwide. Please contact our sales team for more details.

SlabsSlabs of Irish Blue Limestone have long since been worked and transformed by skilled craftsmen into beautiful work surfaces, floors and a myriad of other uses within the building environment. Slabs of Irish Blue Limestone are available in a range of 18 Finishes.

Uses: Slabs for worktops, cladding, stairs, walls A natural and textural material, Irish Blue Limestone is also beautifully suited to interior spaces. Irish Blue Limestone work surfaces are an ideal way to showcase a premium piece of stone in an indoor space.

With a wonderful diversity of colour and fossil patterns, it serves as a perfect way to fuse nature with an indoor living space, ideally utilized in contemporary and traditionally designed kitchens, workspaces, desks, boardroom tables, hotel appointment desks and vanity sett tops.

Over time, Irish Blue Limestone worktops adopt a rustic patina, developing a heightened sense of texture and a continually changing aura.

Blocks & Slabs


BLOCKS & SLABS

PavingIts durable nature makes it the ideal material for superior quality paving and setts as well as for kerbing, steps, borders and tree surrounds. Our premium wall and floor tiles come in a range of styles and in 11 suggested finishes.

TilesKilkenny Limestone can supply clients with natural stone tiles in a wide range of smooth and textured finishes for shaping and fitting to individual projects. Available in 9 finishes and 11 different formats.

Tiles & Paving

Used for centuries in the prestigious and stately buildings of Ireland and Europe, Irish Blue Limestone tiles developed a well-earned reputation for classic and timeless elegance.


T I LES & PAVING

Flagstones & Pavers Kilkenny Limestone’s range of Irish Blue Limestone paving is designed to exist in harmony with its surrounding environment. Our range is environmentally friendly, highly resistant to wear, pollution, frost and de-icing salts. Its durable nature makes it the ideal material for superior quality paving, setts and cobbles as well as for kerbing, steps, borders and tree surrounds.

Paving Strips are suitable for pedestrian areas, public squares, plazas, entrances and the paved areas of private and commercial buildings. Available in for example split and flamed finishes, this format of blue stone has high anti-slip properties.

Garden Range

Hard-wearing against the elements, Irish Blue Limestone has unlimited uses and applications in external spaces.


GARDEN RANGE

Palisades Our solid limestone palisades enable a sensitive and natural separation of spaces in high quality garden and landscaped areas. Palisades from Kilkenny Limestone are produced to order.

Kerbs & Edgings Irish Blue Limestone kerbs and edgings make for a noble addition to high quality garden areas or public places. They are used for rigid and flexible installations. In addition to the simple sawn or sanded kerb, various other finishes including flamed and bush-hammered are offered to add texture and roughness to the surfaces.

Large Wall Blocks These large split wall blocks are used for layering into large, structurally strong retaining walls or to mark split levels in garden and landscaped areas.


Copings Cappings and copings from Kilkenny Limestone are sized to match metric bricks and blocks. Coping is available in multiple standard as well as bespoke designs including half-round, saddle, curved, flat, chamfered and skewed. End pieces and returns are also manufactured to order.

Steps and Stairs Cut-stone block steps are functional and solid in joining different levels of terraces, patios and landscaped spaces. High quality Irish Blue Limestone steps reflect the importance placed on outdoor relaxation and entertainment areas in contemporary residences or public places. Kilkenny Limestone produces both block step and tread-riser variants to order in our factories in Ireland.


GARDEN RANGE

Bespoke & Project

Work


CLADDING AND MASONRY:

Waterford City Library, Ireland


BESPOKE & PROJECT WORK


Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland


An area of natural beauty, the boundary between counties Clare and Limerick was chosen as the location of the new University of Limerick Medical School. Considering the geographical location and the institutional nature of the new building, designers Grafton Architects saw the opportunity to select Irish Blue Limestone as the key material for the project.

Factors such as exposure to the elements, orientation and human activity were central to the profiling and layering of the Medical School’s stone façade. Large limestone cills communicate a subtle connection between the school and student housing, with the same theme carried through to the piazza to create functional seating along the low walls, and detailed insetting throughout the space.

Kilkenny Limestone produced a range of Irish Blue Limestone features for this project, including 80mm cladding blocks, bush-hammered seat tops, 40mm bush-hammered paving, sanded blue limestone cills and coping.


University of Limerick Medical School, Ireland



Kerbs at Hove, Belgium

KERBSTONES:

Kerbs at Hove, Belgium

Usage of high quality natural stone kerbs is an effective means of transforming the quality of streetscapes in areas of urban renewal and architecturally sensitive areas alike.

This subtle intervention delivers an immediate improvement in the aesthetic appearance of the street or landscaped area.

The comparably superior lifecycle of Irish Blue Limestone links multiple generations of the urban environment in time as the forms of the kerbstones change and wear with the ages.



PAVING:

Ebrington Square, Northern Ireland


PAVING:

MoreLondon Project, United Kingdom



MoreLondon, is one of Foster + Partners’ flagship projects in the British capital. A key characteristic of London’s prominent new public space is the impressive 3 hectare plaza and streetscape made up of flame-textured Irish Blue Limestone paving.

In an innovative use of the material, the paving was supplied in random length strips which were laid in a uni-directional pattern which gives the striking impression of sweeping through the landscape.

In addition to the paving works, Kilkenny Limestone created a dramatic, sunken limestone amphitheatre, known as The Scoop. Adjacent to City Hall, the arena seats 800 and is host to high profile public events, theatre productions and concerts.

Expertly crafted seating, cladding and balustrading adorns the development, along with a unifying limestone water feature which lures pedestrians through the urban landscape. The project team received a major award for factors including quality of work, sympathy of scale to surroundings and the innovative use of stone.


PAVING:

Tournai, Belgium



INTERIOR TILES:

De Greef, Belgium


INTERIOR TILES:

Wexford County Council, Ireland



Our Company

Technical Information

QualityKilkenny Limestone maintains a quality approach to our work. We subject all of our processes to rigourous and regular quality control checks, from inspection of raw materials, through monitoring of the entire manufacturing process to final quality approval and guarantee of our end products.

Our system of CE marking highlights the performance standards expected from our products. The products are produced from ATG-certified materials. The ISO: 9001 quality system implemented by Kilkenny Limestone is independently audited and verified.

The low-waste production methods used complement the naturally low embedded carbon that makes Irish Blue Limestone an exceptionally environmentally friendly material.

QuarriesKilkenny Limestone runs the largest quarry and processing operation for Irish Blue Limestone. We operate dimensional stone quarries and production centres in three locations: Kellymount, Co. Kilkenny, Holdensrath, Co. Kilkenny and Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow.

There, we extract and shape Classic Blue, Dark Selection, Oyster fossil and Coral fossil varieties of Irish Blue Limestone.

Our sales team will be happy to assist you with any technical queries and requests. For more information and specifications regarding our product range, please visit www.kilkennylimestone.com.


OUR COMPANY

Classic BlueThis variety of Irish Blue Limestone originates in a clear, light bed of the stone. It is bright blue-grey in appearance, its ancient crinoid fossils providing minor tonal variations to the stone. This variety is suitable for many types of finish but communicates a beautiful blue hue when a dry-sanded finish is applied to it.

Dark SelectionThis category of our blue limestone product range is a darker shade than the classic blue variety. When a honed finish is applied to this variety, a more dramatic contrast is revealed between its dark background and its component marine and plant fossils, which become a more prominent feature.

Oyster & Coral FossilThese fossil varieties of Irish Blue Limestone possess a captivating dark shade. Carefully sourced from special fossil beds, they feature relics of ancient marine life which are a particular characteristic of this stone. These large oyster and coral fossils are unique to Irish blue limestone and only found in the Kilkenny/Carlow region of Ireland.

Varieties

Finishes

Blue Honed

Polished Chiselled

TILE SLAB INTERNAL EXTERNAL

Sawn Sanded

Dark Honed


TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Cottage

Serena

Leathered

Abbey

Old Mechanical Chiselled Ice Flower

Sbattu

Flamed

Bush-hammered

Peon-hammered

Stonewashed Light Stonewashed Dark


Kilkenny Limestone Quarries LimitedKellymountPaulstownCo. KilkennyIreland

Head office: +353 59 972 6191Sales: +353 59 972 1227Fax: +353 59 972 6276Email: [email protected]

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