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Irish Steel Limited (Irish: Cruach na hÉireann Teoranta), [1] later known as Irish Ispat Limited, was an Irish semi-state company which was involved in steel production primarily from a plant on Haulbowline island in Cork Harbour.
The earliest evidence of metal mining in Ireland is provided by Bronze Age copper workings at Ross Island, Co. Kerry in southwest Ireland. These workings, dated at between 2,400 and 2,000 BC (OBrien, 1996) constitute the oldest recognised in northwest Europe.
After 1950, the iron and steel industry began to be located on large areas of flat land near sea ports. The history of the modern steel industry began in the late 1850s. Since then, steel has become a staple of the world's industrial economy.
22 Αυγ 2015 · The first steam ship crossed the Atlantic from Queenstown” – or Cobh – “to New York in 1838, and we had the first flashing lighthouse, on the Galley Head in Cork,” he says. That Ireland ...
In 1824 the Mining Company of Ireland was formed and the Irish mining industry grew until the start of the American Civil War in the 1860s. Mineral prices collapsed and Ireland's mining industry subsequently collapsed.
25 Νοε 2006 · Ireland's industrial past has been largely overlooked, but a vital new book uncovers a rich history of manufacture and engineering…
Ever since our ancestors started to mine and smelt iron, they began producing steel. More than 4,000 years ago, people in Egypt and Mesopotamia discovered meteoric iron and used this ‘gift of the gods’ as decoration. But it was another 2,000 years before people began producing iron from mined iron ore.
