Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Ballybrowney Lower, County Cork, Ireland
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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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 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
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