Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Old Lead Mines, Mulreesh, Islay. View of cottage and former engine-house from South.
SC 423583
Description Old Lead Mines, Mulreesh, Islay. View of cottage and former engine-house from South.
Date 1981
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 423583
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 11875
Scope and Content View from south showing cottage and engine-house at Mulreesh lead mines, Islay, Argyll and Bute Mulreesh lead mines are located 3km west of Port Askaig on Islay. Possibly worked during Norse times, the most active period for the mines was the 18th and 19th centuries when they were the most important workings of the Islay Lead Mining Company. This shows the remains of the engine-house adjoining a cottage. The engine house was built when the shafts became too deep for the water wheel to work effectively. A beam engine was used to pump water from the mine shafts. The remains of a total of ten shafts are in evidence today. Many of these have been filled with refuse, and are fenced or walled off. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/423583
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © RCAHMS
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
