Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckross
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Copper Mine (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.01605, -9.53946
- SMR number
- KE074-023----
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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
In woodland, on a small peninsula on the N shore of Muckross Lake. A single vertical shaft was seen, but is inaccessible. It probably dates to the second half of the 18th-century or early 19th-century (O'Brien 2000, 20). An extensive mining complex (KE074-024---) is c. 200m to the W.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.