Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pottery works
Curraghboy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghboy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pottery (Disused) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.97487, -7.89708
- SMR number
- CO067-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Ruined late 19th-century pottery works. Remains of gable-ended, 3-storey brick-built structure (int. 9.75m square) enclosing brick-built kiln; remains of extension to E. Circular bottle kiln (int. diam. 3.9m); seven arched furnace holes in perimeter at base, door ope to N, saucer-domed roof with central circular vent; bottle-neck chimney on top. According to Breslin (1991, 100) tradition of more kilns here.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Pottery worksunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.