Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Ballinlass (castleffrench Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlass (castleffrench Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48453, -8.33513
- SMR number
- GA047-004----
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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
In a natural depression in pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small circular mound (D c. 15m). What is visible is a poorly preserved and partially overgrown circular mound (D c. 9m, H c. 1m) at S end of the depression. There is a hollow in its centre and a pile of loose rubble at its N end. Possibly a limekiln.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.