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Kiln - corn-drying

Ballybrowney Lower, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - corn-drying, Ballybrowney Lower, 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
Ballybrowney Lower
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.06728, -8.30486
SMR number
CO044-073013-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a very gentle SE-facing slope. This corn-drying kiln (structure F) was excavated in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. This kiln was a typical keyhole-shaped example consisting of a rectangular hearth and semicircular bowl connected by a long flue. The hearth (Wth 0.8m; min. L 0.56m) was located at the SE end of the kiln and was lined on two sides by sandstone slabs set on edge. The hearth was truncated on its S side by a post-medieval field boundary. The flue (L 1.7m; Wth c. 0.5m) extended towards a semicircular bowl (1.1m x 1.3m; D 0.25m) at the NW end of the flue. Some of the original stone lining of the flue survived. A date range of AD 630-870 was obtained from a charcoal sample from one of the fills from the hearth area. (Cotter 2006a, 35; 2006c)

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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