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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
52.06732, -8.30464
SMR number
CO044-096----

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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

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

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

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