Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Reentrusk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reentrusk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66326, -10.08160
- SMR number
- CO114-093----
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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 grazing, on a S-facing rocky hillside, midway between the areas known as Eskavaud and Eskakininaun. Traces of quartz are visible in a NE-SW ridge of rock. The adit (max. H 2m; max. Wth 3m) extends along the base of the rock for c. 18m. Immediately in front of it is a grass-covered spoil mound (H 2m; Wth c. 5m at base) which slopes down to the SE. Broken stone mauls and mining debris resulting from fire-setting are exposed intermittently along the length of the mound. Material from the spoil mound has slipped back into the adit. The floor of the adit is dry, any water in it eventually seeps out through the spoil mound. The stone walls of a now roofless, rectangular animal shelter stand on the spoil mound. A stream flows to the SE of the mine.
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.