{"id":778,"date":"2015-03-16T13:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T10:33:21","slug":"geology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/natural-heritage\/geology\/","title":{"rendered":"Geological Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Kilkenny has a rich geological heritage, and Kilkenny City is known as &#8220;The Marble City&#8221; due to the &#8216;black marble&#8217;, or limestone, quarried locally. There are 25 <em><strong>County Geological Sites<\/strong><\/em> in Co. Kilkenny &#8211; sites of geological and geomorphological interest, ranging from Castlecomer\u00a0coal mines to Limestone\u00a0quarries and\u00a0 Dunmore caves.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Office of Kilkenny County Council commissioned the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI)\u00a0to identify and map sites of county geological interest in Kilkenny in 2007.\u00a0The audit was updated in 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2412\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GSI-2007-Cover-No-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2412\" class=\"wp-image-2412 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GSI-2007-Cover-No-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GSI-2007-Cover-No-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GSI-2007-Cover-No-2.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSI 2007 &#8211; Kilkenny<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Geological-Heritage-of-Kilkenny.pdf\">Geological Heritage of Kilkenny,\u00a02007<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GSI-main-report-2012.pdf\">Geological Heritage of Kilkenny, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/2018\/04\/25-geological-site-reports\/\">To read the County Geological site reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a brief introduction to the geology of County Kilkenny (by the geoschols initiative with the GSI) suitable for schools, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsi.ie\/documents\/Geoschol_Kilkenny_Geology.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Kilkenny has a rich geological heritage, and Kilkenny City is known as &#8220;The Marble City&#8221; due to the &#8216;black marble&#8217;, or limestone, quarried locally. There are 25 County Geological Sites in Co. Kilkenny &#8211; sites of geological and geomorphological interest, ranging from Castlecomer\u00a0coal mines to Limestone\u00a0quarries and\u00a0 Dunmore caves. The Heritage Office of Kilkenny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":892,"parent":544,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kilkennyheritage.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}