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Eas Anie, Cononish
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Gold Mine (Period Unassigned), Lead Mine (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eas Anie, Cononish
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Gold Mine (Period Unassigned), Lead Mine (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 23760
Site Number NN22NE 1
NGR NN 2926 2865
NGR Description Centred on NN 2926 2865
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23760
- Council Stirling
- Parish Killin
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN22NE 1 290 284
See also NN32NW 1 and NN33SW 2.
(Area centred NN 290 284). Three shaft symbols and four roofless buildings shown and described twice as Lead Mines (NAT) (OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., 1867) and Old Lead Mines (NAT) (OS 6" map, 2nd ed., 1901).
The Tyndrum lead mines were started in 1739 and original workings are in Beinn Chuirn, above Coninish. Near a large waterfall, at Eas Anie, are the ruins of miner's cottages. Together with the mine at Sron nan Colan (see NN33SW 2) the workings were intermittently exploited until 1923. (Full details of ownership and production of ore given).
V A Firsoff 1954.
There are the ruins of four buildings, two by the side of the river east of the waterfall, and the others south of the waterfall on the mountainside.
The former are the ones mentioned by (Firsoff 1954). The dry stone walls stand to a height of 2.5m, but whether they were cottages or mine buildings it is not possible to say.
The buildings on the mountainside are of much cruder construction and are probably earlier. They seem to be mine buildings rather than dwellings.
The shafts could not be located, but the farmer said that they were levels driven horizontally into the mountain from the cleft by the waterfall. He also said that the mine had not been used during this century.
Visited by OS (G H P) 1 May 1962.
Two groups each comprising two unroofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxxvii) at NN 2883 2835 and NN 2919 2848. Two unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).
A building which may be one of the two buildings at NN 2919 2848, is depicted and named as Essanie hut on an 18th century plan of the glen called Coninish (see archive).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 8 December 1997.
Previous OS field surveyor confirmed.
Visited by OS (W D J) 22 April 1969.
These workings have recently been re-opened by Caledonian Mining to work gold from a quartz vein known as the 'Mother Reef'.
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 8 April 1997.
