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the lode is fahlerz, which occurs in large quantities, and of a high 
per-centage ; associated with it is a little melaconite, and large 
rounded lumps of galena. No iron pyrites is found, except a 
few strings, until east of the N. 32° E. headin the Connary Mine. 
Here the north lode is just the same as that described at the 
Magpie, with the exception that in depth a quartzose rib (Rattle 
Box) forms the hanging wall. This has disseminated in it specks 
and strings of copper and chalcopyrite. In the Connary Engine 
shaft the lode was followed down fora depth of 76 fms. from surface, 
and 15 fms. east of this shaft a winze was put down 20 fms. deeper, 
in which the lode was found to be productive for a few fms. below 
the 84-fin. level, at which place the walls were almost in contact 
(see cross section No. 10.), while in length the lode was cut out 
by slides coming in from the east and west. Still deeper the 
walls came together, completely cutting out the lode, at a depth 
of 94 fms. from surface, or 24 fms. above sea level. Elsewhere the 
main lode in this mine has not been proved to its full depth. In 
length it has not been proved farther eastward than Kempson’s 
shaft, although its gossan has been followed for some distance into 
Kilmacoo. 
South of the Connary main lode, in the townland of Sroughmore, 
there is a second lode (“ Wall’s lode ”), with a similar bearing and 
underlie, which for a short distance produces iron pyrites, with a 
little chalcopyrite. Wall’s lode to the east breaks into strings, 
while westward it is cut off by a mass of felspathic rock. South 
of Wall’s lode on the felstone a quartz lode, similar to the “ Rattle 
Box,” with strings of chalcopyrite was proved in the Kilmacoo 
level. 
Farther north-east in Kilmacoo there is a south lode (Kilmacoo 
lode) principally made up of “soft ground,” which contains bunches 
and veins of “ Kilmacooite,” which is a peculiar combination of 
sphalerite, argentiferous galena, iron and copper pyrites, and 
antimony glance, with a trace of gold. Large quantities of Kil- 
macooite have been raised from this lode. 
The great sulphur lode in these mines (Kast Cronebane and 
Connary) is more or less wedge-shaped, gradually narrowing in 
depth ; it has a general bearing of N. 60° E., with a southerly dip 
of 60°. As previously mentioned, it has been proved to its full 
depth in the Magpie shaft, and a little east of Connary Engine 
