Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Ruanes, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ruanes
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.15064, -8.74002
- SMR number
- CO032-039----
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 natural slope, indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map in quarry. Random-rubble walls encase earthen core. Front elevation (H 4.5m; Wth 4.8m) faces N; arched recess (H 2.4m; Wth 2.5m; D c. 2.8m) with lower inner arch, sloping slabs at rear with stoking hole (0.15m x 0.15m), rectangular ope (H 0.4m; Wth 0.34m) at base. Top of kiln (5m N-S; 4.5m E-W) enclosed by low walls on three sides, position of infilled funnel indicated by depression.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.