Connemara Marble Factory, Ireland (Wednesday, July 24th, 2019)

Today we left the hotel early and traveled by coach through the countryside of western Ireland.  We stopped in a small town in the Inagh Valley for a tour of the Connemara Marble Factory.  The marble is mined in a nearby mine, and this factory made small marble trinkets and jewelry from the beautiful Connemara marble, known world wide for it's beautiful shades of green.  Larger marble pieces are made in other locations, but this stop gave us a chance to see all of the different shades of marble that come from the mine and to see how they work with it.  Most of the small items are made from marble cores taken from larger pieces.

This is a display of all the different shades of green and black marble that come from the Connemara Mine.

This little stop in Inagh Valley was a nice leg stretch, and allowed us to view the beautiful and uniquely colored marble of this region.