Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Castledonovan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castledonovan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69185, -9.28338
- SMR number
- CO119-017001-
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
Immediately W of Castle Donovan (CO119-017002-) atop low E-W ridge, on E bank of stream. Stone-lined lintelled flue (H 0.5m; L 1.3m; Wth 0.63m), facing E, leads to circular drying chamber (H 1.15m; 1.11m E-W; 1.03m N-S) covered by capstone held on three support stones 0.2m over top of chamber walling. Set within trapezoidal stone-faced rubble platform (2.93m E-W; 2.95m N-S at wide end to W); set within low circular mound (5.9m N-S; 5.75m E-W).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.