Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Dromavrauka, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromavrauka
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98019, -9.31754
- SMR number
- KE076-065----
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
On the S side of a road, built into a steep N-facing slope. A heavily overgrown mid/late 19th-century limekiln. The random rubble front wall (Wth 4.2m) faces N. The central lintelled recess (Wth 1.35m; D 1.8m), which is partly infilled, has sloping slabs at the rear; iron reinforcing bars have been inserted.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.