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Visit us in Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland and discover breath-taking landscape, a lively village and the captivating story of Europe’s most westerly copper mines! |
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Allihies, the last village at the end of the beautiful Beara peninsula, sits between an impressive rocky mountain range and the rugged Atlantic coast. The saying ‘a view around every corner’ certainly applies here. The panorama from Barnes gap is unforgettable and, as you descend towards the village through the small fields, the Man Engine house at the Mountain Mine leaps out from the grey mountain ahead. Allihies Copper Mine Museum (ACMM), at the foot of the village, bears witness to the phenomenal copper mining industry at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution that changed the land and people of Allihies forever. |
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Follow your museum visit with a tasty, fresh lunch at the Copper Café . Find a curio at our gift shop, or a book of local stories and history…Stroll around the pretty village of Allihies with its colourful houses or follow the Copper Mine Trail across fields and up mountains! Take on the adventure and find your own route to the most ‘inaccessible museum’ in the country! |
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News and events
- Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar has visited the site of the Allihies Copper Mines to see first-hand the possible tourism benefits of the mines being opened to the public. > Evening Echo, > Southern Star, > Examiner
- Allihies Copper Mine Museum is pleased and honoured, in 2012, to receive two awards from the UK’s Association of Industrial Archaeology (AIA). As a result of their visit in 2011, the association wishes to recognize ACMM with an award for the ‘Best Site Visited’ and also the ‘Initiative Award’, for a challenging task taken on in an innovative manner. The award was presented in Allihies in June.
- There are always challenges to meet and developments are on-going, and of course the museum sector is under particular pressure in the current economic climate.
- There are plans to expand by opening the mountain mine to the public in the next few years. Aside from ACMM’s commitment to telling the story of the mines, it is hoped this will bring a much-needed economic boost to the area. These combined achievements would be a fitting tribute to the triumphs and tragedies of all those involved with the copper mines of Allihies.
- 1812 – 2012 Allihies Copper Mines Bicentenary this year! This year, two hundred years will have passed since the first shift in the mines of Allihies. Celebrations will include the design and launch of a commemorative poster, exhibition of works in copper by celebrated artist Eilis O’Connell and special events in the museum.
- Watch this space for updates, or find us on Facebook below (Allihies Copper Mine Museum) / Art Programme 2012.
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This year’s art programme will see Eilis O’Connell’s works in copper exhibited at ACMM, as well as the haunting urban landscapes of Mary Burns and the paintings of local resident David White. Click this link to go to our Art Gallery page for artist’s biographies and to find dates.
