Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Castleknock (Without Phoenix Park), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleknock (Without Phoenix Park)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37157, -6.36369
- SMR number
- DU017-127----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
Annotated ‘L.K.’ on the 1863 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map where it is depicted as a square-shaped structure in an area of extensive quarrying, possibly associated with an ‘Old Lead Mine’ that is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS six-inch map. Limekiln 90m to the north. Not depicted on earlier editions of the OSi historic maps. No surface remains visible. Area of grassland on site of levelled limekiln visible on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of Compilation: 26 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Benedictine monksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.