Adit #2 and Reign of Fire

Lost mines of Co. Wicklow ?

The provocative The lost mines, Co. Wicklow started me searching maps of the area again, only to find that the site is a spoof: in fact the pictures are from Co.Tipperary see here and here and here.

But that reminded me of the film set constructed on the Hero site (aka "the rocks") for Reign of Fire which was very impressive - at the time I must have taken some photos but cannot readily find them (it was before the advent of the ubiquitous digital camera) so instead I offer these from a Google search...

"Reign of Fire" film set at Hero site

View, descending from Wicklow Gap

Adit #2 again

Courtesy epa

Have just found this map here which identifies my "adit #2" as "8 Luganure Adit" and indicates that there is much more to explore in this area.  And, what our family calls "the rocks" was, apparently, the Old Hero Processing Plant. I think we will continue calling it "the rocks" though.

The EPA site has a useful interactive map which superimposes mining data on OSI maps.