Doneen mine, Allihies

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Doneen mine The remains of the original lode jutting out into the sea. From the Bronze age up to the 1870s the area was a site of copper-mining. The most commercial and productive period being between 1812 and 1912 when 297,000 tons of ore were recorded as passing through Swansea from Allihies mines.

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Location: Allihies, Beara peninsula, South West Cork, Ireland, Europe, Ireland
Photo credit: © radnorimages / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: allihies, beara, cluin, copper, doneen, kilnamanagh, lode, ore, peninsula, radnorimages, rocks, éara