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
- 52.06732, -8.30464
- SMR number
- CO044-096----
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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
This possible corn-drying kiln was excavated in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. A figure-of-eight-shaped pit, which was filled with loose stones and soil, was situated c. 1.5m to the SE of a Bronze Age house (CO044-073002-). Two sherds of cord-impressed Middle Bronze Age pottery were recovered from the fill of this pit. The basal fill of the pit comprised a grey/brown silty clay while another fill comprised a large number of flat stones. According to the excavator (Cotter 2006a, 34), the function of the feature is unclear, but its morphology is similar to that of some corn-drying kilns, though there is no evidence to suggest it was ever used. It may represent later activity on the site (ibid.). (Cotter 2006a, 34-5; 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.