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Kiln - corn-drying

Rath-Healy, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - corn-drying, Rath-Healy, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rath-Healy
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.14353, -8.26409
SMR number
CO035-138----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

One of two corn-drying kilns (see CO035-137----) which were excavated along the route of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass in 2003. This figure-of-eight-shaped corn-drying kiln consisted of a pit (c. 2.3m E-W; max. Wth c. 1.2m), the waist of which divided it into two chambers: the W chamber (D c. 0.6m) and the E chamber (D c. 0.4m). The sides of both chambers sloped steeply to a flat base. The base of the W chamber had been oxidised to a deep red colour. Analysis of seeds obtained from the fills were predominantly barley. There was another corn-drying kiln (CO035-137----) situated c. 44m to the SW. According to the excavator (Linnane 2006, 44), despite their distance apart, both corn-drying kilns are considered to be closely contemporary because of their similarity of form and function. (O'Connell and Linnane 2006, 72; Linnane 2006)

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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