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Coosheen Mine, Co.Cork (OS 094031)

The shafts to the west are filled with rubbish. Shallow Adit was not found but Deep Adit, which was open until Summer 1993, had been bulldozed by the council. The same had happened to the engine house at Nallins Shaft, as it was considered to be an eyesore! A golf course now covers most of the lower remains which included the dressing floors.

The mine was worked 1840-1907, producing 1,957 tons of copper raised between 1840-47. As well as copper ore (cuprite, malachite and tetrahedrite), a quantity of haematite was also obtained. See Cole's Memoir pages 54, 88.

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