Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Keelty, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelty
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84161, -9.00703
- SMR number
- CL033-170----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a NW-facing slope overlooking the floodplain of the Claureen river. A 19th-century limekiln was excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the N18 Ennis bypass (Licence no. 04E0025). The kiln was rectangular in plan (5.7m x 6.6m; H 4.7m) and constructed of limestone blocks, roughly dressed and bonded with lime mortar. The kiln had a flat upper surface with a centrally located flue tapering down to a horizontal furnace chamber. (Hull 2007; Bermingham et al. 2012, 96-100)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 July 2016
References
Bermingham, N., Hull, G., and Taylor, K. 2012 Beneath the Banner: archaeology of the M18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road, Co. Clare. NRA Scheme monographs 10.
Hull, G. 2007 Site AR129, Keelty. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 38-9. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.