Gravestone of John Loudon McAdam, died 1836.

Description Gravestone of John Loudon McAdam, died 1836.

Date 2/1991 to 11/1991

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 436103

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 94185 CS

Scope and Content MacAdam's grave, Moffat, Dumfriesshire 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. John Loudon MacAdam (spelled McAdam on his tombstone) died and was buried in Moffat in 1836. The Muirkirk tarworks had brought him to the brink of financial ruin, and he left in 1798. His son continued the works until 1809, until the site was abandoned. 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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