Heritage
A Heritage of Mines and Miners
For over 700 years miners have toiled above and below ground to extract mineral wealth from the ancient Silvermines geolgical fault.
Silvermines Hydro recognises the long and challenging history that the community has with its mining heritage, and we are working with the community to record and document that history through the efforts or our community engagement team.
Mogul workers 1965, Photo catches a shift change at the Mogul of Ireland property, Part of the headframe structure in the background.
Silvermines Hydro has collected a series of essays on the geology and mining heritage of Silvermines and working with the Silvermines Historical Society we have offered it on sale with the proceesd going to support the historical society. Another series of essays will soon be published as a supplement in the Nenagh Guardian starting autumn 2026.
Silvermines by Thomas Dingley, circa 1681, by kind permission of Illustrated Ireland, University of Galway.
Interpreting An Ancient Mining Landscape
This beautifuly illustrated collection of essays includes the papers on the geology and history of minig along the fault, on the legacy of Irish place names, on the workers who toiled at the mines, on housing Mogul's Canadian workers in the mid-1960s and the extensive heritage conservation work undertaken to preserve the surviving minim buildings.
Published with funding support from the Geoheritage Community Grant Scheme, Department of the Environment, Climate and Communication (Grant Code GRANT/0689, 2024-2025).
