LISDRUMGORMLY [H806282]

The site of the Lisdrumgormly Mine is engraved upon the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 6" scale map of 1856, but not on the 1st edition of 1836. References in 1862 and 1889 record it as a worked lead deposit, but there is no mention of the mine, nor production, in Mineral Statistics. An unspecified exploration programme was undertaken on the deposit by the Farney Development Company of Belfast in the 1920s, and it was further explored by the Mining Corporation of Ireland in the 1950s. This included re-opening the underground mine workings, which were surveyed in October 1956 by the then Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Dr. M.V.OBrien. His plan is reproduced as Figure 13a in the 1998 MHSI reprint of Cole's Memoir of Mineral Localities, originally published in 1922.

[Morris, 1984]