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Kiln - lime

Churchground, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - lime, Churchground, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Churchground
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.91211, -9.44447
SMR number
KE085-011001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This record was formerly classed as a 'House site' in the SMR (1990) and in the RMP (1997). The record was originally classed from the information recorded by the ITA survey in the 1940s. 'A curious feature of this fort is the oval-shaped house built on its SE side.' This 'oval-shaped house', measuring '9ft. [2.74m] high, with base of 6ft [1.83m], and with walls about 2ft [0.61m] thick'. It is described as having been built with limestone rocks and mortar and situated at a lower level to the rath. There are no visible remains of this 'house', which is most likely the remains of the limekiln depicted abutting the NE side of the rath (KE085-011---) on the 1841-2 OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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