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THE BEREHAVEN COPPER MINES, ALLIHIES, WEST CORK.
1812 - 1884 In the summer of 2002 my husband Frank and I visited Allihies, at the very tip of the beautiful mountainous Beara Peninsula in South-west Ireland, as guests of the Mining Heritage Committee There we discovered a fascinating Cornish connection with the copper mines, stretching from 1812 to 1884. The best preserved engine house is that at the Mountain Mine, (Below) It was a beautiful day when we were there - we managed to take some good photos.
Other mine Captains were: Richard Martin (Helston) John Richards Reed (senior) (St. Agnes) John Richards Reed (junior) (St. Agnes) William Reed (St. Agnes) Samuel Reed (St. Agnes) William Tamblyn Henry Pascoe (Crowan) James W. Crase Captain Trevellian John Chigwin Joseph Chynoweth Robert Richard Nancarrow William Sylvester Josiah May Other Cornish miners/tradesmen: Richard Trewhella (Head Smith) Thomas Trewhella (son of above) James Mayne James Faull James Tonkin Edward Roberts Absolom Holmon John Holmon Joseph Hoskins Robert Clogg (Liskeard)
A small Protestant church was built for the Cornish miners.
This has been restored and re-roofed by the Mining Heritage Committee, Allihies. Plans to open it as a mining museum finally came to fruition on the 12th September, when the wonderful museum was officially opened by the President of Ireland, Mrs. Mary McAleese. (See more pictures on Berehaven mine photo page) (Above photo courtesy Theo Dahlke, Mining Heritage Committee, Allihies) If anyone has anything in connection with these Cornish miners who toiled in Ireland, please get in touch with this website. Did an ancestor of yours work there? Would you like to donate an article of mining interest to the Museum? Email: troonexiles@lycos.co.uk More info: http://www.bearainfo.com Allihies Museum: http://www.acmm.ie/ A community of houses was built to house the miners - still known today as 'The Cornish Village'. See photo page. There are quite a lot of mining remains, including a pumping-engine house for a man-engine (The Mountain Mine - photo above). I have put up all the photos that I took in Allihies on a separate page of this web-site. There are also photos there from Theo Dahlke , of the Allihies Mining Heritage Committee. It is very nice to think that after all this time, links are being restored between Cornwall and the copper mines in Ireland.
A very full account of the Berehaven copper Mines has been published (1991, reprinted since). The Berehaven Copper Mines by R. A. Williams. 228 pages. ISBN 0 9521173 0 4 It has been reprinted by : A. B. O'Connor, Kenmare Bookshop, Kenmare, County Kerry, Rep. of Ireland. Tel: (064) 41578 I have
written a genealogical article about the Cornish who worked in the mines from 1812
until they closed in 1884. It has beeen published by the Cornish Family
History Society in the March 2003 edition of their
Journal.
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We have received a request for help with providing mining artifacts for the
mining museum in for Allihies, in a former Cornish chapel there. More
below.
