Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Gortore, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortore
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.16414, -8.26601
- SMR number
- CO027-116----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Built against natural rock, in quarry adjacent to road. Random-rubble limestone walls (6.5m E-W; 5.4m N-S) encase earthen core. Front elevation (H c. 6m; Wth 6.5m) faces N; lintelled corbelled recess (H 1.5m; Wth 2.3m; D c. 2.1m), sloping slabs at rear with stoking hole cut into slab. Stone wall encloses top of kiln with ope (Wth 2.5m) to S. Top inaccessible due to overgrowth.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.