Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Skeagh (carbery West (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeagh (carbery West (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.55620, -9.53483
- SMR number
- CO139-026008-
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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
Adjacent to the Skeagh-Rathcool townland boundary, c. 123m E of mine (CO139-026003-), on an E-facing rock scarp. It is one of 31 copper mines belonging to Mount Gabriel Prehistoric mining complex (CO139-026001-). On inspection this mine consisted in an infilled working driven into the E-facing rock scarp. The interior was waterlogged with probable peat deposit, and it was not excavated. It was probed for a length of 3m, though the size of the spoil mound indicates that it was likely much larger. Outside the entrance (Wth 2m; H 0.6m) the large circular spoil mound (22m N-S; 15.5m E-W) covered c. 275m² to an unknown depth; slight erosion on the E periphery exposed stone maul fragments. (O'Brien 1987 and 1994, 336: mine 22)
This is a a National Monument in State Care.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992) and William O’Brien’s monograph ‘Mount Gabriel, Bronze Age mining in Ireland’ (Galway: Galway University Press, 1994).
Image attached
CO139-026008-_01: Mine site (in O'Brien 1994, 342).
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
References
O'Brien, W. 1987 Primitive copper mining in south-west Ireland, 3 vols. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University College, Cork.
O'Brien, W. 1994 Mount Gabriel: Bronze Age mining in Ireland. Galway University Press.
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