Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Coolnagillagh Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnagillagh Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.07103, -9.02138
- SMR number
- CO039-080----
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 ground sloping down to NNW, in area planted with coniferous trees. Collapsed remains of limekiln, indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map, survives as irregularly-shaped earthen mound (H on downslope c. 3m; H on upslope c. 0.5m; diam. c. 8m) on which trees are growing.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.