Feldspar

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A rock-forming aluminium silicate mineral, crushed and used as a flux and glaze ingredient in ceramics and glassmaking; feldspar and kaolin deposits at Larkhill, County Fermanagh, supplied the Belleek Pottery from the 1850s.

Mines

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Castlecaldwell Feldspar Mine County Fermanagh Deposits identified 1853; mining developed through the 1850s-60s–1940s (last feldspar working)