Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Ballynacarrig West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrig West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.12773, -9.60258
- SMR number
- KE058-156----
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
In pasture, built into a S-facing slope close to a road. A mid/late 19th-century limekiln with well-built random rubble walls retaining an earthen core and roughly shaped quoins at the corners. The front elevation (Wth c. 8.8m; H c. 4m) faces S. The central semicircular arched recess (Wth 2.8m; H 1.5m; D 2.3m) has an internal horizontal lintel and sloping slabs to the rear. Two horizontal ledges run across the face of the kiln and extend around to the sides; the first ledge is c. 2m off the ground, the second c. 3m off the ground. There is an earthen ramp to the rear. The funnel area is covered with overgrowth.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.