Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mining complex
Carrigacat And Milleen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigacat And Milleen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dhurode Copper Mines (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.51574, -9.75721
- SMR number
- CO147-002001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Fragmentary remains of 19th-century coastal mining complex on SE side Dunmanus Bay; consisting of ruined mining structures; adits and shafts; dividing walls and magazine amidst mounds of spoil. Roofless embattled magazine; circular external plan, rectangular internal plan (1.9m N-S; 1.55m E-W); pointed doorway to SE (wall thickness 0.73m). On S side of complex are remains of fish palace (CO147-002002-). Near mines reservoir, c. 150m S of main mining complex, are remains of two single-storey dwellings.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.