Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine - copper
An Ráth (dún Cíaráin Theas), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Ráth (dún Cíaráin Theas)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.74191, -10.13813
- SMR number
- KE106-149----
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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
The primitive mine in the base of the cliff is represented by the curved surface of an overhang, with green coloured rock. Its worked surface is similar to the southern working of the primitive mine 500m to the north-east (KE106-130----) and its age is unknown. A large fallen block close to the working in the cliff has a stepped surface on its underside, which may be due to mining. The block may have fallen from the cliff because of undermining. On the north-western face of a very large fallen block to the north of the cliff working, a nodule of malachite has been partly extracted and is surrounded by a battered surface, probably dating back to the bronze-age.
Compiled by: Alastair Lings
Date of upload: 6 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.