Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Canshanavoe, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canshanavoe
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72154, -9.70490
- SMR number
- CO103-025001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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. An adit (Wth 4m; H 1.5m; L c. 4m), filled with water and debris and sloping down to the S, is visible on the N face of an area of outcropping rock. It has a dome-shaped roof and some traces of fire-setting. Immediately to the N is a small, mainly sod-covered, irregularly shaped mound (4m E-W; 2m N-S; H 0.4m) from which a variety of heat-shattered stones and damaged stone mauls are spilling down the steep slope. A small opening blocked by debris is located 2m to the E. This may represent the entrance to another adit. There is another copper mine (CO103-025----) c. 45m to the S.
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
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.