Welcome to the Ross Island Slide Show
The Chronology of Copper Mining in Killarney
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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
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
Ross Island Mining Company, Bank Note
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