Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Callaros Oughter, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callaros Oughter
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.49287, -9.73662
- SMR number
- CO147-032----
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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
On W-facing slope above pasture, 1.7km W of Goleen village. Isolated mine working; discovered 1929 by geologist T.J. Duffy; local tradition of "Danes Shaft". Inclined working driven 060° into upper part of prominent rock scarp; waterlogged infill deposit, not excavated. Probed length 3m plus; entrance (Wth 2m; H 0.5m). Outside entrance, denuded spoil dump spread over 6-8m; stone mauls exposed. (O'Brien 1987)
A charcoal sample recovered from a depth of 0.4m within the mine sediment has been radiocarbon dated to 3360±90 BP (GrN-25562). A second charcoal sample from a different spoil layer is dated to 3410±50 BP (GrN-25563). (O'Brien 2002, 40-41).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.