Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Kellymount, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellymount
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68583, -7.03336
- SMR number
- KK016-021----
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 gentle E-facing slope, in low slightly undulating pasture. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3857). A oval cereal-drying kiln (1.66m by 1.1m by 0.61m) with evidence of in situ burning at the lower levels and a high concentration of charcoal and some fragmented burnt bone and charred seeds. A fragment of willow returned a radiocarbon date of 91 cal BC – cal AD 50 (UBA-14046). A possible post-hole c. 5m to the S may be related. (Wiersbicki 2010, 251, no. 953; Wiersbicki and Coughlan 2012)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 January 2014
References
Wierzbicki, P. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 - Knocktopher to Powerstown. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR126, Kellymount 4. Registration No. E3857. Final report. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Wierzbicki, P. 2010 AR126, Kellymount. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 251, no. 953. Dublin. Wordwell.
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