Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Graig Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graig Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.24696, -8.50308
- SMR number
- CO018-031----
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
On E side of disused trackway/stream bed. Random-rubble sandstone walls encase core. Built in depression; earthen scarps on either side form forecourt area in front of kiln. Front elevation (H 3.5m; Wth 5.4m) faces N; tall lintelled recess (H 2.75m; Wth 1.76m; D 3.75m), sloping slabs at rear. Rear of kiln overgrown, partially infilled stone-lined funnel 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.