Second Ed OS map extract showing Murikirk Iron Works.. NB: Scan of NAS slide.
SC 436101
Description Second Ed OS map extract showing Murikirk Iron Works.. NB: Scan of NAS slide.
Catalogue Number SC 436101
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Muirkirk Ironworks, Ayrshire The mining remains at Muirkirk cover more than 9 sq km and include a tarworks and an ironworks. Both required coal for fuel, and the ironworks also needed iron ore and limestone, all of which were available locally by opencast mining and quarrying. The ironworks is shown in some detail on the OS 2nd Edition map of 1896. There were furnaces, forges, a rolling mill, an ironstone kiln, and a coking oven. Raw materials arrived by tramways or canal, and the finished iron left by rail. The tarworks was set up in 1786 by the Earl of Dundonald and later taken over by J L MacAdam, the famous road engineer. The ironworks was founded in 1787 and flourished until the ironstone seams were exhausted in 1901. Coal mining ended in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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