Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Boulysallagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boulysallagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.48824, -9.72640
- SMR number
- CO147-034----
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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, 1.3km SW of Goleen village. Complex of mine workings on "Danes Lode"; discovered 1852-3 during mineral exploration. 1853 exploratory shaft and horizontal level at base of hillslope; shaft infilled; horizontal level extant, driven 075°; (L 6m; Wth 1.2m; H 1.6m); drill-holes on mine walls. 5-6m above 19th century trial, two grass-covered depressions (L 6-7.5m; Wth 3.5-2.5m; D 1-2m), with eroded spoil dumps. Three smaller depressions upslope. Below workings on level ground, low spoil mound (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W); modern disturbance, stone mauls of Mt. Gabriel-type exposed. (O'Brien 1990)
A charcoal sample recovered from a depth of 1m within the mine sediment has been radiocarbon dated to 3480±35 BP (GrN-25561) (O'Brien 2002, 40).
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
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.