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Kiln

Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln, Gowran, 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
Gowran
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62862, -7.06564
SMR number
KK020-060030-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In 1998 service trenches associated with the refurbishment of the chancel of the medieval parish church (KK020-060006-) of Gowran were cut by hand through the present graveyard (KK020-060024-). Archaeological investigations (98E0112) in the SW quadrant of the graveyard revealed the remains of a medieval kiln, possibly for drying grain, which pre-dated the present graveyard wall and presumably lay outside the medieval church precinct (Pollock 2000, 114 (entry 343)).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 27 March 2021

References

Pollock, D. 2000 St Mary’s Church, Gowran: medieval church. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 114. Bray. Wordwell.

Pollock, D. 1998 Report on the archaeological excavation of service trenches at St Mary’s Church, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Excavation licence no. 98E0112. Archaeografix. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service.

Nearby in the register

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

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