Download coordinates as: Irvinebank is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The Great Dividing Range forms the south-eastern and southern boundary of the locality.

[4] Irvinebank is in the western foothills of the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, 123 kilometres (76 mi) south-west of Cairns via the Bruce Highway, Gillies Range Road, State Route 25 (bypassing Atherton) and the Herberton Petford Road.

The terrain is generally mountainous with the following named peaks: First known as Gibbs Camp, the town was founded in 1884 by John Moffat, who had purchased the mining leases from the original prospectors.

He built a dam, a mill, smelters and other infrastructure that attracted settlers and miners to the area.

[2][3] Irvinebank became a thriving town with an economy based on mining, milling and smelting.

In late 1884, Irvinebank became famous for a massacre of Aboriginal Australians and a subsequent inquiry.

In October of that year a Native Police patrol led by officers William Nichols and Roland Garraway conducted a series of raids in the area during which an Aboriginal camp was fired upon.

At a trial in Townsville the magistrate concluded there was no case against Nichols and he was discharged "amid considerable applause".

[20] Nichols, however, was dismissed from the Native Police by the Queensland government and the Irvinebank massacre is regarded as a turning point away from the policy of indiscriminate killing of Indigenous people in the colony.