Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine
Ballynarrid, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynarrid
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13022, -7.39101
- SMR number
- WA032-016002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
About thirteen mine-openings are visible on the headland of Dane's Island beneath a promontory fort (WA032-016001-). Thought to be Bronze Age copper mines (Jackson 1979, 113-17) but Cowman (1982) has suggested, on historical grounds, that they are 18th-century silver and lead mines. Inaccessible.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
References
Jackson, J.S. 1979 Metallic ores in Irish prehistory: copper and tin. In M. Ryan (ed.), The origins of metallurgy in Atlantic Europe: proceedings of the 5th Atlantic Colloquium, 107-125. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Cowman, D. 1982 Bronze Age copper-mines at Dane's Island. Decies 20, 22-7.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.