A Deep, Dark History. Bunmahon & the Copper Rush of the 19th Century
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Bunmahon is an idyllic seaside town in Co Waterford but it has a deep dark history. It's a story that begins in an abandoned mine and ends in a search for a lost town...
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| 0:37.2 | Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. |
| 0:39.7 | My name is Finn Duwarr. |
| 0:41.7 | Now today's episode is a tricky one to explain in an introductory line, but it has a good |
| 0:47.2 | backstory that will give you a flavour of what is a gripping story. |
| 0:52.8 | Earlier this summer, I stumbled on an abandoned mineshaft, and strange as it was in the darkness |
| 0:59.4 | of a narrow, dark tunnel that I came across this story, or rather this story popped into |
| 1:05.5 | my head. |
| 1:06.5 | It began with a question, you see after about 20 minutes in that mineshaft, I had to |
| 1:12.1 | leave the tunnel because it started to have that strange, deeply discomforting feeling |
| 1:17.4 | that the walls were closing in around me, but I had spent enough time in there to peak |
| 1:22.8 | my curiosity, and I had a lot of questions, how could someone spend their entire lives |
| 1:28.4 | mining in tunnels like that, what was it for, who did the work, and what was it like? |
| 1:34.7 | Now the answers I got to these questions was a lot more than I bargained for, it's the |
| 1:39.5 | story of a quaint Irish village that was transformed in the 1830s when copper mines were sunk |
| 1:46.0 | into a pristine, beautiful landscape. People came from far and wide, and what was once a rural |
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