Mines in County Fermanagh

A border county built around Lough Erne's two great lakes, whose 19th-century mineral surveys — commissioned to give famine-hit tenants new work — turned up the feldspar and kaolin that founded the Belleek Pottery, still Fermanagh's best-known industry today.

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Castlecaldwell Feldspar Mine 1853–1940s (last feldspar working) Feldspar, China Clay

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