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Kilmux Colliery No.3 Pit

NE of Bonnybank, Kennoway, Fife.

Mine (Coal & Ironstone), 19th Century.

A 50 fms-deep [92m] pit/shaft sunk to the Cardenden Smithy Coal (aka Six Foot Coal of Kilmux) & Lochgelly Blackband Ironstone. Accessed the central part of a small area of longwall ironstone workings (bound to N by a volcanic dyke), & the more extensive area of stoop-&-room workings within the coal worked in conjunction with the neighbouring shafts. See abandonment plans for mine layout. The No.3 shaft is now buried below a worked field.

Ironstone and coalmining operations at Kilmux date to the late-18th century, possibly earlier. Coal mining continued up until 1922 when a surface-mine in Whally Den closed.

Alternative Names: Kilmux Pit, Kilmux Mine, Drumaird No.3 Pit, Drummaird No.3 Pit

Notes: Whilst part of Kilmux Colliery, this pit was situated on the lands of Drumaird, not Kilmux.

Hydrographic Feeds: None

Hydrographic Resurgences: None