THE 'MINES'
The Old Workings
'The silver mine was found out by an English man a little before the late Rebellion, who observing a sheep killed in the shambles to be extream yellow, enquired where it grazed, who told him upon the aforedescribed mountaines, whereupon he concluded in that Place to be, and discovered the Silver mine. The Soyle is short and crumbling, not a clay though of a clayish colour in some almost of a bright yellow in others darker; it abounds with Yellow Oker and Umber, which burnt in a crucible turnes to a red this the Proprietor sells as such; Whilst it produced silver it was held by Pattent. It is now possessed by Henry Pretty Esqrwho onely rayseth Lead Concerning the Veines, the flakey and shineing is best for silver, the glittering and sparkey next, but the white crusted with Oker is the best for Lead, this last the Workers in the Mine call Catts Teeth and with a blow pipe Cole and Candle will melt into plain lead, it is very weighty and resembles white enamell or glass. The melting houses and Mill marked with T. hath a large Water Wheele by whose motion a Great Forge bellows is lifted up and blown.
There was a want of Water which caused the worke to stand still, because of the Dryness of the season....'
Thomas Dineley - Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland - 1681

Dynelys original sketch
After Colonel Henry Prittie acquired his lands at Kilboy he was visited by Thomas Dynely (aka Dingely/Dinely) in 1681. This is a rudimentary sketch Dynely made of the Lead, Ochre and Amber mineworks at Silvermines. Note the two Inn's in the foreground, The New Inn and Ye Holy Lamb. You can also see a new shaft being sunk in 1681 at "K".

Matters relating to the old Mineworks

J.R.S.A.I. page 272

Ballygowan Pumphouse (1) covered in ivy

Ballygowan Pumphouse (2) - after restoration

Shallee Engine house in 1937

The Mining Journal - 08/04/1876

Mining World 1956

A new lot comes to town
Building The Mogul Mineworks

Sanitized Mineworks Painting by F.R. Janes - the Chief Chemist of Mogul of Ireland Ltd

L - R: Jack Lynch, Marsh A.Cooper, Mrs J Lynch & P.S. Cross
At the official opening of Mogul 11/09/1968 - the largest underground workings at the time





Core samples

Headframe



Commissary


Entrance to Mogul Ireland






Conveyor System Concentrator

Rod & Ball Mills


IBM Computer & Printer

Regrind Cone Crusher


The Flotation cells - after being processed with reagents the ore is allowed to settle - (1968)






Longhole Driller




Grinding Circuit



Loading cars from the oreshoot




Silver City




Aerial views of Silvermines & mineworks 21/07/1967
By Supplementary Letters Patent dated 27/07/1967, the name of the company was changed from Consolidated Mogul Mines Ltd to Mogul Mines Ltd

Liberation News Service - 22/04/1972 -
recounting the death on 06/07/1971 of 20 year old Martin O'Leary who was electrocuted whilst trying to sabotage a transformer

Nenagh Guardian - 19/04/1980

A scheme to make the Mines safe from 2008
The Mineworks Branchline

Driver J.O'Dwyer and colleagues, Silvermines - 07/03/1968 -
(James O'Dea Collection - National Library)

The Railtrack to Silver City - 07/03/1968
(James O'Dea Collection - National Library)

The 'Mines train at Shallee

Silvermines Junction

Mogul sidings

Shallee Halt


Foynes Terminus

RAILTOUR - Nenagh to Silvermines - 22/09/1974

Train with ore wagons


Making use of the branch line for Heritage Rail Tours

Trade Dispute in 1971


Core samples abandoned



A reminder of times past


Part of the detritus of the now defunct mine


Furnace Building








Magcobar open cast mine and the ore train to Foynes
The Legacy




Old mine workings


Flooded mineworks
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