V5945 : Mountain Mine, Man-engine House
near to Allihies and Ballydonegan, Cork, Ireland
Mountain Mine, Man-engine House
The engine house was built in 1862 for a 36" cylinder beam engine driving a man-engine and a winding drum in the new Man Engine Shaft. Man engines combined reciprocating rods and fixed platforms in a shaft. As the rods moved up and down with the beam of the engine, the miner stepped from rod to platform and vice-versa, matching the strokes of the engine, so that he was carried up or down, typically in 10 or 12 foot stages. The winding drum was used for raising ore and waste to the main adit level. On the left is the roofless boilerhouse, on the right the bases for the man-engine gearing and the winding drum.
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year taken
2006
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- V5945, 8 images (more nearby)
- Photographer
- John Gibson (find more nearby)
- Image classification?
- Geograph (Second Visitor for V5945)
- Date Taken
- Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Wednesday, 19 September, 2007
- Category
- Mine (disused) (more nearby)
- Subject Location
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Irish:
V 591 459 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:38.9092N 10:2.1868W - Photographer Location
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Irish: V 591 459
- View Direction
- Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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