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Kilmux Colliery (Engine Pit)

Kilmux, Bonnybank, Leven, Fife.

Mine (Coal & Ironstone).

Ironstone and coal were wrought on a small-scale at Kilmux during the late-18th century, possibly earlier.

Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House. Blocked shaft next to remains of Enginehouse, sunk to Lochgelly Blackband Ironstone at 429 ft. The coal workings used the stoop-&-room method, with a stone mine crosscut connecting the Engine Shaft (No.1?) workings with those driven from pits Nos.2, 3 & 4 to the NW. See mine plan (S2818) in refs.

(Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House). The monument comprises the well-preserved remains of a beam engine house which served the small colliery at Kilmux from 1838.

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The building is now roofless with the walls standing to their full height. The S, E and W walls are of squared, coursed rubble construction with ashlar quoins and ashlar facings around the openings: the N wall, which incorporates the large, arched aperture through which the beam protruded to connect with the pump rods of the mine shaft, is of dressed stone throughout. The footings of ancillary structures are visible to the immediate W and S of the building while to the S, adjacent to the field boundary, stand the footings of 2 cottages.

[Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 October 1998].

Alternative Names: Kilmux Mine, Kilmux Colliery Beam Engine Shaft

Notes: Only the Engine Pit was located on the lands of Kilmux. Pits 2-4 were on lands of Drumaird.

Hydrographic Feeds: None

Hydrographic Resurgences: None