View looking back towards the lake from the `Miners Village`Glendalough.
At the west end of the Upper Lake lie the ruins of an abandoned miners’ village that is, normally, accessible only by foot. The mining of lead took place here from 1850 until about 1957 but the mines in the valley of Glendalough were smaller and less important than those around the Glendasan Valley, that are separated by Camaderry Mountain. In 1859 the Glendasan and Glendalough mines were connected with each other by a series of adits, now flooded, through the mountain. This made it easier to transport ore to Glendalough and process it there.

Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20, 4x ND Filter. 3 exposures at f22 0, +2, -2 ISO 100. Tonemapped in Photomatix and tweaked in PS.