4K UHD WALKING TOUR EXPLORING AN ABANDONED MINER'S VILLAGE IN GLENDALOUGH, COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND. 4K WALKING TOUR. SUBTITLES / CLOSED CAPTIONS AVAILABLE.
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The mining village in Glendalough is a piece of industrial history hidden away in a valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. Glendalough is a one hour drive south of Dublin City Centre. Join me as I walk around the site to see what remains of the lead mining works.
In the Scenic Valley of Glenealo near Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland can be found the remains of a lead and silver mine dating back at least two hundred years. Past the crowds of tourists visiting the ancient St. Kevin’s Monastery and along the miner’s road by the lake you will find Glendalough Miner’s Village, abandoned piece of mining history that was last in use in 1957. Join me for a walk through this breathtakingly beautiful part of Ireland and we will explore what remains of this significant mining operation.
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Walking along the Miner’s Road by the Upper Lake it is hard not to imagine that this scenic landscape was always a place of peace and tranquility. But at one time this valley and the surrounding hills were a hive of industrial activity with ore being extracted from deep within the mountains and the sound of rock being crushed by machinery would have echoed through the valley. The granite hills here in Glendalough and nearby Glandasan Valley are rich with seams of valuable minerals and since the early 1800’s people have sought to extract lead, silver and zinc.
The activity of the miners has left a mark on the landscape that is still visible today in the form of spoil heaps on the cliff sides and valley floor. They have also left behind the buildings and some of the machinery in what feels like a time capsule protected by the remoteness of the Wicklow Mountains. In what is now the Glenealo Nature Reserve you can wander through these ruins and try to imagine what life must have been like to the people who worked these mines.
To get to the mining village you can park in The Upper Car park in Glendalough. This area is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Ireland and if you visit during the summer there will be hundreds of people and many coaches of tourists visiting the monastery and the lake. However by following the miner’s road along the edge of the lake all this is soon left behind and you will find yourself on a quiet path surrounded by trees and the occasional hiker. The evidence of mining begins sooner that you might think as most of the trees that you pass along the way were actually planted here by the mining company to provide timber for support beams in the mineshafts.
Upon reaching the mining village one of the first and most striking artifacts you will encounter is the remains of an ore crusher dating from sometime between 1913 and 1925. After extracting rock from the mines workers would break it down into smaller pieces, a job that was initially done by hand with lump hammers and then feed the smaller pieces into the crusher to separate the lead from the rock. The machines were powered by water sourced from a reservoir fed by the Glenealo River just above the village and later in the video we will see some of the wooden aquaducts used to channel the water. The side of the crusher bears the name of J. Mills Foundry from Wales where the machine was built. The mining works in the neighbouring valley of Glendasan were of a larger scale than here in the Glenealo Valley but the ore crushers played an important role as the mines from both sides of the mountain were connected by horizontal tunnels and ore could be transported down to the valley floor by an inclined railway and processed here before being transported to Ballycorus, Swansea or Cornwall for smelting.
Link to Glendalough Walking Tour Video-
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