Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Derrynacaheragh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynacaheragh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83492, -9.56765
- SMR number
- KE102-122----
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 rough hill pasture, on a SE-facing slope of Barraduff Mountain. The partially collapsed remains of a limekiln, rectangular in plan (3.9m SW-NE; 3.5m NW-SE). Front faces SE and rear has been cut into upslope. Surviving façade (H c. 1m) is built of large slab-like stones without the use of mortar. Lintelled recess (H 0.75m; Wth 0.6m; D 1.2m) with rectangular ope (H 0.15m; Wth 0.45m) at base of rear. Circular stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.4m) partly filled with collapsed material. Further debris on downslope side of kiln.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.