Collection Item
SC 436062
Catalogue Number SC 436062
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Muirkirk Station, 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. A branch of the Caledonian Railway linked Muirkirk with Lanark (now dismantled). In this early view, the railway station is in the foreground, and the town of Muirkirk beyond. 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 1923. Coal mining ended in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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