Quarry, Caraunduff, Co. Galway

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Quarry, Caraunduff, Co. Galway

At Caraunduff in County Galway, a disused gravel pit sits quietly in the landscape, one of countless small industrial scars that punctuate the Irish countryside and are rarely afforded a second glance.

Gravel pits of this kind were once a practical necessity across rural Ireland, supplying the aggregate used in road-making and local construction, and their abandonment typically followed the exhaustion of workable material or the arrival of larger, more centralised supply operations.

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