Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Ballyellis (fermoy By., Mallow Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyellis (fermoy By., Mallow Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.13224, -8.62156
- SMR number
- CO033-117----
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 rock face in quarry; second lime kiln to E recently removed. Overgrown random-rubble walls encase earthen core. Front elevation (H c. 5m) faces N with wall on W side projecting out into forecourt; buttress on E side. Lintelled corbelled recess (H 3m; Wth 2.6m; D 2.8m): sloping slabs to rear with stoking hole. Limestone-lined funnel (diam. c. 2.5m) almost totally infilled.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.