Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Rathmore, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08573, -9.22981
- SMR number
- KE060-048----
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
Built into a gentle N-facing slope adjacent to an access road to the Cork-Killarney railway line. The random rubble front wall (H 3m; Wth 4.2m) faces N. There is a central arched recess (H c. 1.8m; Wth 1.8m) with an nner lintelled arch and sloping slabs to the rear. The stone-lined funnel is infilled to 1m from the top. There is an earthen ramp at the rear.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.