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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
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.72154, -9.70490
SMR number
CO103-025001-

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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. 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

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

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