Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81188, -7.22821
- SMR number
- KK005-079----
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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 a level terrace, at the foot of sloping ground to W, with a river immediately to the NE. A ravine runs down to the monument from the S. The iron-works consist of a building of roughly coursed rubble, only one wall (H 2m, L 3.5m) of which survives, running NW-SE. Piles of rubble masonry indicate the remains of the rest of the building, which is c. 4m from the river. To the NE of the building are grass-covered piles of slag and ore in a partially smelted form, in a variety of shapes and sizes. At a distance of 8m to the S of the building, on slightly rising ground, are the remains of two parallel banks 8m apart (overall Wth of each bank 6m; H 1.5m), running for a total of 12m.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.