Carrickfergus salt and shenanigans…
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 […]
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The Archaeology of Irish Salt – fatalities and accidents
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 […]
Carrickfergus and the discovery of Irish rock salt
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 […]
Anthropology of Salt Congress – Romania
The findings of the Archaeology of Salt in Ireland project were recently given their first airing at the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, held in the Romanian […]
Why Ballycastle?
The salt working sites in Ballycastle are located in Colliery Bay – the name of the bay is a direct indication of the reason that salt working proved successful in […]
