The Making Victorian team visited the black marble quarry in Anglingham, north of Galway city (no longer in use) and the Connemara marble quarry at Streamstown, north of Clifden, still in production and currently owned by Ambrose Joyce.

Anglingham Black Marble Quarry, Galway

Streamstown Quarry

Cutting Connemara Marble at Streamstown

Raw blocks of Connemara Marble

Unpolished cores of Connemara Marble