Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Glasheenanargid, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasheenanargid
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24688, -9.15104
- SMR number
- CO013-032----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On E side of road, built against natural slope at junction of road and trackway. Early/mid-20th-century lime kiln. Random-rubble construction using local shale. Front elevation (W) has arched recess (H 1.6m; Wth 2.2m) with dressed limestone voussoirs; central lintelled recess with sloping slabs in vertical rear wall.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.