Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Boherascrub West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherascrub West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.21981, -8.72094
- SMR number
- CO016-192----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Built against quarry-face. Random-rubble limestone walls encase core. Front elevation (H c. 5.5m) faces S; central arched recess (H 2.34m; Wth 2.1m; D c. 2m), stoking hole between corbelled stones atop sloping slabs to rear, ope at base (H 0.35m; Wth 0.38m). Ledge (H 3.2m) on front elevation over recess arch. Rough dry-stone wall closes off rear of kiln with stone steps up to top. Top of kiln overgrown, stone-lined funnel (diam. c. 2m) evident.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.