Irish Coal Mining.

Coal mining has never been a large industry in Ireland, even though there are numerous deposits across the country but not on nearly the same scale as those in neighbouring England.

The largest mines were those at Castlecomer in County Kilkenny

The Newry Canal was built to carry principally coal from County Tyrone to Dublin, the Tyrone coal proved to be a bit of a dissapointment from a quality point of view

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