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 […]
Just back from a trip through Munster from Clare to Cork. This province proved both promising and challenging. The south coast was heavily involved in transatlantic butter and meat exports, […]