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Stone walls, patios, and structures found across Derry, Donegal, and beyond. Each one a piece of local geology made tangible.

Random Rubble Boundary Wall

Material: Donegal Quartzite Style: Random Rubble

A classic random rubble quartzite boundary wall on the outskirts of Culmore. The silvery-white stone glitters in low Atlantic light. No mortar — dry stone throughout, estimated over 100 years old.

Inishowen Dry Stone Field Boundary

Material: Donegal Quartzite Style: Dry Stone Boundary

A spectacular dry stone field boundary on the Inishowen Peninsula west of Buncrana. The wall runs for over 200 metres along a natural quartzite ridge, the stone sourced directly from the bedrock it sits on.

Coursed Limestone Farm Wall

Material: Local Limestone Style: Coursed Rubble

A beautifully coursed limestone farm wall outside Limavady. The roughly squared stones are laid in even courses with consistent bed joints — a higher-skilled tradition than random rubble, common in the Roe Valley.

Victorian Sandstone Commercial Facade

Material: Sandstone Style: Victorian Dressed Ashlar

A late-Victorian commercial building facade on Waterloo Place, Derry. Dressed sandstone ashlar in a warm buff colour — the fine tooled surface and rusticated quoins are characteristic of the period's civic architecture.

Quartzite Garden Paving

Material: Donegal Quartzite Style: Irregular Paving

An irregular quartzite garden paving project in a Letterkenny new-build. Locally sourced stone laid in a random pattern with wide lime mortar joints — the rough-split faces provide good grip and authentic Donegal character.

Granite Farmhouse Outbuilding

Material: Granite Style: Random Coursed Rubble

An old farmhouse outbuilding outside Dungiven, constructed from split-face granite in random coursed rubble. The walls are 600mm thick at the base, tapering to 450mm. The building dates to the 1870s and is structurally sound.

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