Aerial view.
AY 4494
Description Aerial view.
Date 1981
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number AY 4494
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 436060, SC 1684294
Scope and Content Aerial view of mining landscape at Muirkirk, Ayrshire The mining remains at Muirkirk cover more than 9 sq km and include a tarworks and an ironworks. Both required coal for fuel, and the ironworks also needed iron ore and limestone, all of which were available locally by opencast mining and quarrying. From the air, the coal mines show up as craters on the moorland. At the top of the photograph, either side of a burn, there are the parallel rigs of old cultivated fields. To the left are the ridged barrow-runs of limestone quarrying. The tarworks was set up in 1786 by the Earl of Dundonald and later taken over by J L MacAdam, the famous road engineer. The ironworks was founded in 1787 and flourished until the ironstone seams were exhausted in 1923. Coal mining ended in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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