Leinster Coal District Survey (Ireland) 1814. Map, plan,geology appendix. RARE

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In 1814 Richard Griffith, Jun, HM Inspector of Royal Mines in Ireland and a member of the Dublin Society, was commissioned by the Society to carry out a survey of the mines in the Linster Coal District in the Republic. 

Mining here dates from at least the early 17th century when the Wandesforde family, local landowners, opened pits into the Three Foot Coal in the central coalfield. With the seam nearing exhaustion by 1815, exploratory shafts discovered the Jarrow seam, at a depth of around 245 feet, near Clogh.

In the twentieth century, the Skehana seam was discovered at Skehana and in 1924 Deerpark colliery was sunk to work it. This was the largest mine and it worked until 1969, but there were also Kilgory (1948-1952) and Flemings 1940-1965. In the 1970s some open casting was done, and there was a small mine at Rossmore.

This item is the appendix to this lengthy report (which can be read on Google Books). It contains:

One color map of the area 24.5" x 20"

Three geological cross sections 24.5" x 10"

Five geological cross sections 16" x 10.5"

2 smaller plans of colliery underground layouts. As the seams were becoming exhausted, they suggest how the pillars in the room-and-pillar layout of the mines could be exploited without collapsing the roofs.

CONDITION: The item has blue wraps which are attached and mostly intact but worn and with bites. All the pages are attached and perfectly legible. There is some browning (see photos) mostly to the blank versos and seems to have come from the engravings behind each page. All content is legible. 

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