Welcome to the Ross Island Slide Show. The Chronology of Copper Mining in Killarney Battle of Clontarf 3000400020001000 BC/AD 10002000 First Farmers Newgrange.

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Presentation transcript:

Welcome to the Ross Island Slide Show

The Chronology of Copper Mining in Killarney Battle of Clontarf BC/AD First Farmers Newgrange First Metal Bronze Age Iron Age Christian Era Battle Of Kinsale Killarney Mining Ross Island Muckross

The Geology and Metal Mines of Killarney

Limestone with Copper Minerals

Dam Embankments, Ross Island

Blue Hole Mine 1829

Blue Hole Mine Today

Bronze Age Mine Workings

Geological Rock Sampling

Archaeological Excavations

Firesetting in a Bronze Age Copper Mine

Daily Work in the Bronze Age Mine

Crushing and Hand-sorting of Copper Ore

Copper Smelting Pits

Bronze Axehead and Copper ingot

Beaker Hut Site

Beaker Pottery

The 1829 Weaver Map

Lough Leane and Shehy Mountain

Early Christian Period Furnace

Old Iron Furnace, Derrycunnihy

Trials for Lead Ore at Cahirnane

Muckross Copper Mine

Muckross Mine Shafts

Muckross Powder Magazine

Rudolf Raspe

Ross Island Mining Company, Bank Note

Crow Island

Mine Buildings, 1829

Mine Shafts and Dam 1829

Mine Dam 1829, Ross Island

Engine House c.1810 Ross Island

Mine Dam today, Ross Island

Flooded Mine Shafts

From Ross Castle to the Mine Shaft

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