Corantee Lead Mine [1]

The Corrantree mine worked a lead vein which outcrops at the surface between NM 8006 6560 and NM 8048 6585. Mining consisted of a series of shallow opencast excavations and more westerly opencasts drained by a level driven from the north bank of the Allt Tarsuin. The opencast workings and their associated hand-dressing floors for ore treatment probably relate to the first phase of operation between 1722 and 1815. The manager’s house and office are likely to date to the same period but may have continued in use until the mine closed n the 1870s.