Qualla: Annaglogh Lead Mines https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Annaglogh Lead Mines https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines Annaglogh Lead Mines: Introduction https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. On the property of Philip McAdam in Annaglogh, County Monaghan, two mine shafts opened up in the year 2010. Nobody had been quite sure they were still there. The shafts swallowed nothing important; the Office of Public Works arrived, back-filled them, and made the ground safe again. They had collapsed before, in the late 1960s, and were filled in then too. Above ground, all that marks the spot is a stone chimney base, some old spoil heaps, and the new house built where the mine agent's residence stood until 2007. Below ground, in a vein of galena running south to north through the drumlin country near Castleblayney, lies a buried piece of the 19th-century industrial Atlantic that almost nobody now remembers.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/gceh-annaglogh-lead-mines-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Annaglogh Lead Mines: The Captain From The Angel Hotel https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. On Monday 6 April 1846, at the Angel Hotel in Liverpool, a group of investors held a shareholders' meeting and capitalised the North Eastern Mining Company of Ireland at £8,000. Their man on the ground was Captain James Skimming, born 1817, a Scot whose career took him from the B...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/gceh-annaglogh-lead-mines-the-captain-from-the-angel-hotel.mp3 0:06 2 full Annaglogh Lead Mines: What They Were Chasing https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. The mineral was galena, the heavy grey lead-sulphide ore that catches the light like polished hematite when freshly broken. The Annaglogh lode ran north into Lemgare and Lisdrumgormley along a fault line in the local slates, with a footwall of Tertiary basalt and a matrix of quar...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/gceh-annaglogh-lead-mines-what-they-were-chasing.mp3 0:06 3 full Annaglogh Lead Mines: The Cost-Book Companies https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. Annaglogh was financed in a way that has almost vanished from modern memory: the cost-book company. Investors put up small shares of capital, paid calls when needed, and took dividends when ore was raised. Most of these companies never listed on the London Stock Exchange and so n...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/gceh-annaglogh-lead-mines-the-cost-book-companies.mp3 0:06 4 full Annaglogh Lead Mines: Holes That Open By Themselves https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. Lead mining ended here in 1867. The reminders did not. In the early 2000s, an active quarry at Lemgare broke into uncharted underground workings from the Coolartragh mines, last worked over a century before. In 2010, the two shafts on McAdam's farm collapsed. In 2012, a shaft ope...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/h/annaglogh-lead-mines-wp/gceh-annaglogh-lead-mines-holes-that-open-by-themselves.mp3 0:06 5 full Annaglogh Lead Mines: Reading The Field https://qualla.com/annaglogh-lead-mines/ Photo credit British Ordnance Survey, Public domain. Visit the spot today and the most visible thing is the base of the stone engine-house chimney, which still rises from a hummock above the spoil heaps. The 1857 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map marks five shafts at Tassan; almost no trace of them survives at the surface. Lemgare Mine wa...

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