Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Kilmacredock Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacredock Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35947, -6.53285
- SMR number
- KD011-050----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Eighteen potential archaeological sites were found during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the Celbridge Interchange, from April to December 2001 (Licence no. 01E0306: www.excavations.ie). Most were resolved through subsequent excavation. The scheme was approximately 4km in length and ran from Celbridge to Leixlip through gently undulating land with a mixture of arable, pasture and woodland. The southern part of the scheme runs through an area heavily influenced by 18th-century landscape design, with avenues, woodland and tree-lined field boundaries centred on the early 18th-century house at Castletown.
This site (‘Site 7’ Excavation Licence No. 01E0547 www.excavations.ie) was a corn-drying kiln built in to an earlier ditch. The stone-lined kiln was L-shaped in plan (4.5m E-W; 3.8m N-S) and had a fire-bowl on its E side (diam. 0.95m). At the base of the flue on its W side was a circular pit (diam. 0.6m; D 0.3m), the lower fills of which were rich in charred cereal grains but contained no finds.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.