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Kiln - tile

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - tile, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65679, -7.25813
SMR number
KK019-026270-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Fragments of medieval tile wasters were found in the NW of the graveyard (KK019-026171-) of St Canice's Cathedral and are likely indicators that there was a tile kiln at this location (Anon. 1866, 411-2; Graves 1875, 474-5).

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 16 November 2020

References

Graves, J. 1875 Deer antlers and offcuts found at the Episcopal Palace, Kilkenny, and St. Canice's Cathedral, and evidence for a tile kiln at St. Canice's. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 13 (part 2), 434-435.

Anon. 1864-6 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 8 (part 3), 405-24.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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