A cost book for the Strontian mines, dating to the early 1850s, is now on-line on the CATMHS website (search for "Strontian" on their website). There are quite a few Irish names (Byrne, Doyle, Kelly ...) in it. An accompanying collection of minutes and reports also has a fleeting mention of Irish workmen at the mines in January 1852.
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