Mines in County Armagh

A border county whose south-western hills, straddling the old marches with County Monaghan, carried a scattered but genuine 19th-century silver-lead mining district — small, Cornish-run ventures worked amid a countryside more often remembered for famine, emigration and agrarian unrest than for industry.

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MineWorkedCommodities
Creggan Silver-Lead Mines 1852–1869–70 (reworked 1910–11) Lead, Silver
Derrynoose Lead Mine Mid 19th century–By 1842 Lead

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