Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Jordanstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jordanstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67926, -7.04114
- SMR number
- KK016-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 low rise in relatively flat pastureland. Excavated in 2008 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3851). A keyhole-shaped cereal-drying kiln with oxidised burnt clay at the base of the N side. A limestone hone stone was recovered from the fill. A number of pits and hearths were excavated c. 20 to the W of the kiln. A sample of hazel charcoal from one of the pits yielded a radiocarbon date of cal AD 829-984 (UBA-12236). (Kyle 2010, 249, no. 944; Kyle and Coughlan 2012)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 December 2013
References
Kyle, J. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 - Knocktopher to Powerstown. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR120, Jordanstown 2. Registration No. E3851. Final report. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Kyle, J. 2010 AR120, Jordanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 249, no. 944. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.