Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Erneen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Erneen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82088, -9.48237
- SMR number
- KE102-114----
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, at the foot of a steep N-facing slope. The partly grassed-over ruins of a limekiln (3.4m N-S; 3.4m E-W), cut into the slope at S. The front (H c. 1.6m) faces N. Some of the stone in the collapsed recess (diam. c. 1.8m) displays heat cracks.
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.