Ireland, Thomas

IRELAND, Thomas (?‒?) was an unidentified Scottish engineer who arrived in Queensland from Glasgow in 1887 to erect machinery for the Cloncurry Copper Mining and Smelting Co. By 1888, the Company had built stores and dwellings and sunk wells to aid the opening up of the rich mineral district but lower prices for copper and delays with building a proposed railway from Normanton to Cloncurry led to the temporary closure of the mine. He may have moved to Mount Morgan.