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Kiln - corn-drying

Scartbarry, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - corn-drying, Scartbarry, 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
Scartbarry
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.03653, -8.31847
SMR number
CO053-105----

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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 isolated kiln was excavated along the route of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass in 2003. This figure-of-eight-shaped kiln consisted of a clay-cut, combined, roughly circular stokehole/flue (diam. 1.4m; D 0.2m) and an adjoining subrectangular drying chamber (1m x 0.8m; D 0.2m) both of which were heavily oxidised at the base, with an overlying charcoal-enriched layer. Charcoal recovered from the carbonised layer in the drying chamber returned a date of cal. AD 410-650. According to the excavator (O'Connell 2006k, 51), barley was the predominant cereal identified in the kiln. A series of excavated features (CO053-104----), one of which was a pit dating to the Bronze Age, was located c. 120m to the S and another concentration of features (CO053-111----) were discovered at the S end of the excavation site. (O'Connell 2006a, 75; 2006k)

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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