In the Archives…
Active fieldwork has finished but work continues in trawling through documentary and cartographic sources to inform the findings of the salt project. For our flagship site at Ballycastle the archives […]
Active fieldwork has finished but work continues in trawling through documentary and cartographic sources to inform the findings of the salt project. For our flagship site at Ballycastle the archives […]
The discovery of an Irish source of rock salt seems to have been somewhat haphazard, as in the early part of the 19th century naturally occurring brine was known in […]
Halloween may have just past, but in researching the historical salt works around the Irish coast we uncovered a few gruesome incidents fit for late night story-telling! On the 19th November […]
The earliest, and indeed the only, known occurrence of rock salt mining in Ireland took place in the halite beds of south-east Antrim. Although rock salt was not successfully mined […]
Last year we explored the remains of the early 17th century salt works in Ballycastle Bay, on the north coast of Co. Antrim. The site, located by nearby bucket pot, […]