Tankardstown Copper Mine - Former Site | ruins, closed, tourist attraction

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Tankardstown Copper Mine, County Waterford
Copper mine complex, established 1824, comprising: (i) Detached single-bay three-storey gable-fronted engine house with single-bay three-storey side elevations. Decommissioned, 1877. Now in ruins. Pitched (gable-fronted) roof now gone.
(ii) Freestanding rubble stone chimney to east comprising tapered shaft on a circular plan.
(iii) Remains of detached single-bay two-storey rubble stone boiler house to north-east on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1877. Now in ruins. Roof now gone (original profile not discernible). Random rubble stone walls (mostly collapsed) with lime mortar. Outline of square-headed window openings with no fittings.
An important element of the industrial heritage of County Waterford, this self-contained group of buildings remains as evidence of a copper mining industry established by the Osbour family of Carrickbarron and County Tipperary that operated between 1824 and 1877,

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