Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine
Boleybrack,Dergvone, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleybrack,Dergvone
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Coal Pits
- Latest-edition OS map
- Coal Shafts (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.23556, -8.09983
- SMR number
- LE016-002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the E edge of a broad plateau, and at the top of an E-facing slope. It is described on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the 6-inch map as a ‘Coal mine’ and would be part of the Arigna group of mines, although it may have been an iron mine. An area of about an acres (c. 0.5 ha) has a number of open trenches (Wth c. 1m; D c. 1m; L c. 10m) that are open at the NE end but run SW horizontally into the escarpment as tunnels. There are spoil mounds consisting of broken limestone adjacent to the openings that almost block some of the tunnels.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 September, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.