Muirkirk, Furnace Bridge View from NNW showing top of Furnace Bridge with engine house of Muirkirk Ironworks in background

Description Muirkirk, Furnace Bridge View from NNW showing top of Furnace Bridge with engine house of Muirkirk Ironworks in background

Date 3/10/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 602593

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Muirkirk Iron Works, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire This works was founded in 1786 to make pig iron from the ore, coal and limestone from the upper valley of the River Ayr. It was developed to make malleable iron and iron castings. In 1857 it was taken over and modernised by the Eglinton Iron Co. It was again re-equipped in the late 19th century. This shows the remains of the works from the north. The building was the house for a vertical blowing engine, installed in the Eglinton Iron Co period. On either side of it is the furnace bank, in part a relic of the 1780s, from which the blast furnaces were charged with raw materials. The iron works closed in 1921, during the miners' strike of that year, and did not reopen. The furnaces were dismantled in the 1930s, and the furnace bank and engine house were demolished in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/374/2A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/602593

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