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Mine - copper

Canshanavoe, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mine - copper, Canshanavoe, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Canshanavoe
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.72112, -9.70499
SMR number
CO103-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough rocky hill pasture, on the steep N-facing slopes of a river valley. Three separate adits (Wth 2.4m; H 1.2m; L c. 5m, Wth 3m; H 1.1m; L c. 4m and Wth 2.5m; H 2m; L c. 5m) are visible at the base of the N face of a cliff, separated by two pillars of rock. The adits, which are filled with water and debris and slope down to the S, have dome-shaped roofs and traces of fire-setting and occasional green staining of copper mineralisation. Immediately to the N of the adits is a large, mainly sod-covered, irregularly shaped mound (14m E-W; 10m N-S; H 2.4m). The N side of the mound is eroding and spilling down the steep slope as far as the river-bed. Here a variety of heat-shattered stones, damaged stone mauls and nodules of charcoal are visible, intermixed with black charcoal-enriched soil. This mine has been radiocarbon dated to 3230 30BP (O'Brien 2003, Table 1). There is another copper mine (CO103-025001-) c. 45m to the N.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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