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ID NEIMME/For/1/14/69

Castle Comer Colliery, Kilkenny, Ireland including additional reports re current workings at Rock, Mooneys, Coolbawn, Tourtane, Crutt, Coolaleen and Boneyarrow and the construction of a railway to connect the Kilkenny Collieries with the Athy Canal

Date 1827-03-31 — 1827-12-31

Full description

Reports re Castle Comer Colliery, Kilkenny, Ireland, belonging to C.H. Butler-Clark, M.P., including description of seams, selling prices, establishment, available coal, with recommendations re improved working methods including detailed directions re wages, hours and working practices and establishment of a subscription fund for distressed miners, with section of the colliery showing 3′ and 4′ seams, scale approx one fifth Mile: 1″, additional reports re current workings at Rock, Mooneys, Coolbawn, Tourtane, Crutt, Coolaleen and Boneyarrow and letter to the Marquis of Ormond re the construction of a railway to connect the Kilkenny Collieries with the Athy Canal, by Matthias Dunn

Further details

Language
English

To Date
1827-12-31
Classmark
Strongroom
From Date
1827-03-31
Previous Identifier
NRO 3410/For/1/14/69

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