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Allihies Copper Mine Museum

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houses were constructed around the mining site, ruins of which survive today. These were used to pump out water to allow for deeper mining, and to transport miners and equipment down shafts that went below sea level. The site still contains a number of engine houses, mining shafts and a church. These
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The exhibitions cover all aspects of the history of copper mining in the area, from prehistoric times all the way up to the nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution. The displays also cover the local geology and the social history of the mining heritage. The collections contain examples of
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mining equipment and tools from the various eras of activity. The exhibition space is also used to display artworks, with local and International artists such as Charles Tyrrell, Cormac Boydell, Rachel Parry, Tim Goulding and Margaret Fischer Dukeman exhibiting there.
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The industrial mines in Allihies date back to 1812 when they were first opened by John Puxley. Mining activity reached its peak there in 1845, when the mines employed around 1600 people, after which the mines suffered with the local area during the
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on 13 September 2007, after ten years of work by the Allihies Mines Co-op, a group that was formed to preserve the history of the area and mining heritage, supported by the
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miners who were brought to the area in the 1800s to mine copper ore. Once the mine became unprofitable, many of the miners emigrated to
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The trust has begun work to extend tours into the mines and other areas, and started the restoration of Man Engine House.
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church dating from 1845. It was officially opened by President
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Commissioners of Irish Lights Museum (Baily Lighthouse)
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Allihies Copper Mine Museum is located in Ireland
Allihies
County Cork
Coordinates
51°38′20″N 10°02′44″W / 51.6390°N 10.0456°W / 51.6390; -10.0456
Copper mining
museum
www.acmm.ie
copper mining
Allihies
County Cork
Ireland
Wild Atlantic Way
Famine
Cornish engine
Cornish
Butte, Montana
Methodist
Mary McAleese
Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland



"The Story of the Butlers of Ballyglasheen, Co Tipperary & The Harringtons of Milleens, Co Cork"
"Cork Nostalgia – Remembering our mining past"
the original
"The Spread to Other World Regions"
the original

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