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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Ireland Colliery
Parent Body	Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited (1874-1947)
Parent Body	National Coal Board (1947-1987)
Place	Staveley
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1874-1986
History	The colliery was first sunk between 1874 and 1876 by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. It worked the Deep Soft, Deep Hard and Threequarter coal seams. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, when it was placed in the East Midlands Division Area No. 1. On the internal reorganisation of the National Coal Board in 1967 it went into the North Derbyshire Area. In 1986 the colliery was closed and its workings were joined up with Markham Colliery. The maximum recorded output was 656,900 tonnes in 1981-1982 and the highest recorded manpower was 1,323 in 1948. In total, an estimated 27 million tons of coal was produced from the Deep Soft seam alone. Shafts at Hartington Colliery were used to ventilate Ireland Colliery.
Key Events	1874-1876: First sunk 1947: Nationalisation 1975: Joined with Markham Colliery 1987: Closed
Source	‘Hartington & Ireland Collieries’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/hartington---ireland.html ‘Ireland Closed After 112 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1986-P15.html#:~:text=Ireland%20colliery%20(North%20Derbyshire)%20sunk,named%20and%20called%20Markham%20No5). Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017) Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Bridgewater, A. N., The Local Collieries
Authorised Form of Name	Staveley; Ireland Colliery; 1874-1986; coal mine

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