Kiln - lime

The National Monuments Service's description

In a pasture field overlooked by Tory Hill to the northeast. Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme. (Excavation licence no. E2500; Area 7). The foundations of what appeared to be a simple intermittent ‘flare’ limekiln. A partially stone-lined oval pit or bowl (3.5m N-S; 3.2m E-W; D 1.4m) with rough uneven sides and a slightly concave base cut into the subsoil. An elongated oval (3m E-W; 1.8m N-S; D 1.4m) at W formed the draw-hole. A charred cereal grain recovered from reddened boulder clay returned a radiocarbon date of 1400±25BP (AD 606-664). Metalworking sites, post-holes and pits were excavated c. 120m to the NNW (KK043-087----, Kk043-088----). (Wren 2009, 253, no. 997; Wren 2010)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 17 September 2013

References

Wren, J. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Knocktopher – Phase 2. Archaeological Resolution, Dunkitt to Sheepstown townlands, Co. Kilkenny. Final report. A032/000, E2500. Sites AR6-9, Ballykeoghan, Co Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Wren, J. 2009 Ballykillaboy, Prehistoric and early medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 253, no. 997. Bray. Wordwell.