Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Unknown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO002-032----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Sir Charles Coote developed an iron works using charcoal in the Arigna valley after 1600 as part of his land grants in counties Leitrim and Roscommon, but these were destroyed in the 1641 rebellion. Iron-works were re-started in 1786 by three O'Reilly brothers using coke derived from coal. From 1818 to 1836 the ironworks were operated by a local consortium using the local Arigna coal. (Meehan 1906, 128-9; Butler 1935)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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.
Butler, J. 1935 The mineral resources of north-west Connaught. Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise archaeological society 1 (4), 99-7.