Coal Mining in Muirkirk

Coal mining, with the iron industry, was central to Muirkirk's expansion. Although the days of deep mining are now long gone in Ayrshire, opencast mining continues around the village and provides employment to a number of people.

Mining Links

• Abandoned Mines in and Around Muirkirk - 1
• Abandoned Mines in and Around Muirkirk - 2
• Ayrshire Miners Rows
• Bankhead Pit Disaster 1898
• Kames Colliery Disaster - Audio Project
  • Memories of the disaster in audio and transcribed for reading
• Kames Colliery Disaster - 19th November 1957
  name of those who died
• Kames Colliery Disaster - 19th November 1957
  report from Muirkirk Advertiser (pdf file)
• Kames Colliery Plans (pdf file)
  
• Kames Colliery Photographs 1 (surface)
• Kames Colliery Photographs 2 (underground)
• Kames Colliery Photographs 3
• Mining Accidents in Muirkirk
  • Flooding of Colliery - report in the New York Times on 12th March 1898:-
    
• Muirkirk Miners Memorial
• Scottish Coal