CORNANURNEY [H596094]

There is very little known about the history of this lead or lead-silver mine, also known as "Wheal Burrowes". The latter name suggests a Cornish connection, but nothing is currently known about this, or indeed about the name "Burrowes". The site is engraved on the 2nd Edition OS map of 1856, but it is neither listed, nor production noted in Mineral Statistics. Arsenical lead sulphide and barytes are noted at the site in the c. 1875 field records of the Geological Survey of Ireland, though arsenical minerals were not observed when visited by Dr. M.V.OBrien in 1956. When visited in 1984, the only visible remains included a small spoil heap, two pits, a trench and the portals of two adits. [Morris, 1984]