The HOME of “Wicklow White” Granite in Ireland
32 Years Of History
We have been operating this granite quarry since 1992 although the quarry has been in operation for centuries. We have reserves of 930,000 tonne’s of top quality granite.
After 32 years operating, Oliver Morgan handed control to his son Joshua Morgan in May 2024.
In the 1990’s we, Wicklow Granite Ltd, extracted “dimensional blocks” of what is known in the industry as “Wicklow White Granite” for the cut stone industry in Ireland but mainly for export to UK, among which were to Pisani in England & John Fyffe (Granite) plc in Scotland who used our granite extensively & on the Aberdeen Bridge in Scotland.
The term “Wicklow White Granite” arises from the dominance of pale grey quartz & a milky white feldspar grain with a slight alignment of dark mica which makes it paler than normal grey granites.
When cut & polished the colour is soft & pleasing, hence the market demand.
Properties: Crushing strength: 944kgf/cm2. Weight: 2610kg/M3. Porosity: 0.24% wt
The importation of cut & polished Chinese granite diminished demand for block since 2006 as many contractors including state bodies used the imported inferior product, although we continued with our wall building & crushing operations and recommenced dimensional block extraction in 2013.
Some of our granite has been used on paving Grafton Street following staining of previously installed imported granite.
Granite from our quarry has been used for centuries in famous Irish landmarks such as Dublin Castle, The GPO, the Four Courts, Trinity College, the Ha’penny Bridge in Dublin, Powerscourt House in Wicklow and kerbing all around Dublin city – if you are in Dublin City you will see or walk on our granite.
The American Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 has our reconstituted granite & cut granite on the perimeter wall since 1992 without any deterioration.
Affiliates:
Ryanstone (045 865 1390) JMK Ryan, Blessington, Wicklow have been extracting dimensional granite from our quarry since 2013 & processing for use in Ireland, England and the
USA. O’Reilly Bros (0404 40066) in Ashford, Wicklow have been crushing our granite since 1992 for sale as chippings, dust for reconstituted industry, plastering and golf bunkers.
Rocks Road Stone (046 924 2956) Moynalty, Meath have been using our wall building granite extensively since 2019. Several other smaller stone mason companies use our wall building granite.
The granite is suitable for cladding, monumental works, paving, boulders, features, oblesiks, splitting and guillotining, crushing, chippings, dust for the reconstituted stone industry and random rubble wall building stone.