Limerigg Colliery
Colliery (19th Century), Miners Row(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Limerigg Colliery
Classification Colliery (19th Century), Miners Row(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 84289
Site Number NS87SE 43
NGR NS 85 71
NGR Description Centred NS 85 71
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84289
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Slamannan
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Field Visit (3 August 1993)
NS87SE 43 centred 85 71
Most of the elements of Limerigg Colliery, which can be identified on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1864, 1899 and 1922 sheet xxxv), have been landscaped or afforested. The colliery appears to have opened after the date of the 1st edition map, and is largely shown in use on the 2nd edition, falling out of use by the 1922 revision.
At least two earlier mines (NS 8611 7090, CSW 4498 and NS 8552 7080, CSW 4502) can be identified within the area covered by the later colliery, both marked as coal pits on the 1st edition map (ibid) and disused by the date of the 2nd edition (ibid). The locations of these mines lie within a dense coniferous plantation and only the bings are visible in the trees. Two other bings (NS 8529 7057, CSW 4507 and NS 8559 7053, CSW 4508) within the plantation also appear to have fallen out of use by the date of the 2nd edition map (ibid). A further bing within the plantation (NS 8655 7062, CSW 4495) is shown only on the 1922 revison (ibid) and is not named but may have been part of the colliery.
The 2nd edition map (ibid) identifies Pits Numbers 1, 3, 5 and 9 as part of Limerig Colliery. Pits 1, 5 and 9 are in use on the 2nd edition (ibid) but dis-used by the 1922 revision (ibid) There are no visible remains of Pits Numbers 5 (NS 8584 7128, CSW 4499) and 9 (NS 8587 7079, CSW 4505), and only the bing of Pit number 3 (NS 8647 7118, CSW 4496), which is shown as disused on the 2nd edition (ibid), survives.
The remains of Pit Number 1 (CSW 4486) are slightly more extensive. What may have been the pit head is visible as a hollow choked with rubble with an overgrown building to the WSW. At least twenty lines of barrow runs are visible on the bing, but the air shaft shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map to the SW (NS 8672 7078) has been infilled.
Two groups of miners rows shown on the 2nd edition (ibid) could have been associated with this colliery. Within the village of Limerigg nothing is now visible of three rows shown on the 2nd edition map (but gone by the 1922 revision) on both sides of the Slamannan road (NS 8567 7079, CSW 4504). There is also nothing visible of seven terraces shown on the 2nd edition map (reduced to only three rows on the 1922 revision) along the road to the E of Limerigg, under the name of 'Lochside' (NS 8590 7053, CSW 4506).
(CSW 4486, 4495-6, 4498-9, 4502, 4504-8)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 3 August 1993
