Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Aghadark, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghadark
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LE025-106----
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The National Monuments Service's description
There were iron works in the Ballinamore district which were started in 1695 by a Captain William Slack that lasted up to the last quarter of the 18th century. By 1750 the works were owned by the Gores of Woodford (LE026-001002-) (Meehan 1923-6, 413-4), and advertisements for leasing the works continued down to 1775 at least. They were situated in Aghadark townland close to where the schools are now, and what remained of the works were destroyed when the can al was built. Copious amounts of iron slag were recovered here in the 1930s when water and sewage pipes were laid (Gallogly 1991, 177).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 February, 2017
References
Meehan, Rev. J. B. 1906 The arms of the O'Rourkes: a metal casting from county Leitrim seventeenth-century foundries. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 123-42.
Gallogly, Rev. D. 1991 Sliabh an Iarainn: History of the Town and Parish of Ballinamore. Author
Meehan, Rev. J. B. 1923-6 Items from old periodicals. Breifny Antiquarian Society Journal, vol. 2, No. 3, 412-421.