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Kilmacoo and Connary. — The Kilmacooite may become a pro- 

 fitable ore. In depth the walls of the main lode may separate. 

 There is also the chance of a lode being found to the northward 

 between Connary and Shroughmore. 



Magpie. — The Kilmacooite may become valuable, and in depth 

 the walls of the main lode may separate. 



Yellow Bottoms. — A sulphur-ore lode probably exists under the 

 ochre bed. 



West Cronebane and Tigroney. — The walls in depth may sepa- 

 rate. The North lode in Castle Howard Wood is totally un- 

 broken. 



Bally gahan Loicer and Ballymurtagh. — The deep ore in the 

 South lode unbroken. In the North lode only a small portion of 

 the ore abstracted. 



Ballinapark, Ballymoneen, and Knocknamohill. — The iron back 

 of the North lode is more or less removed, but the lode appears to 

 be unbroken. The South lode only broken in one place. 



Ballycoog, Ballinasilloge, and Moneyteigue. — The lode proved 

 in Moneyteigue, where iron and coppery-ore has been raised ; 

 but elsewhere the nature of the lodes have not been satisfactorily 

 proved. 



From the foregoing notes it will be seen that there are other 

 places in which prospects are not discouraging. It cannot, how- 

 ever, be said, without further trials, that there is a prospect of these 

 making future mines. 



The other mines, also well known, are those on the lead lodes 

 in connexion with the great Granyte intrude in the northern 

 portion of the county, they being principally situated in the 

 tributary glens to that of Glendalough and in Glenmalure. 

 Luganure, or the upper portion of Glendasane, one of the 

 branches from the first, being the principal centre of industry. 



In the beginning of the century the mines in these and a 

 few of the neighbouring glens were opened up by Weaver, who 

 described the lodes in his Paper read before the Geological Society 

 of London, May, 1818. In 1853 they are further described 

 by W. W. Smyth, vol. i., part iii., Records of the School of Mines ; 

 but subsequent to the latter there were valuable reports on in- 

 dividual mines by others, especially those by Griffith. Since 

 Smyth wrote, no new lodes seem to have been found, the works 



