Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Castlepoint, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlepoint
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.49282, -9.62539
- SMR number
- CO148-031----
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
In pasture, at W end of promontory, c. 220 E of Leamcon Castle (CO148-025001-). Horizontal working (L 6m) driven into base of low W-facing outcrop; flooded. Modern infilling of entrance; no associated spoil sediments of stone mauls. Possible exploratory level; documented 19th-century mining in this townland. Uncertain relationship to 1852 record of "Dainish Works" (Mining Journal 1852, 539) or to "Old Mans Working "recorded by geologist T. H. Duffy 1929. (O'Brien 1987)
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.