Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Unknown, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LE023-023----
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is reputed to have been an iron furnace at a place known as Furnace Hill, near Drumshanbo (Meehan 1906, 126), but its precise location or townland name is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2016
References
Meehan, Rev. J. B. 1906 The arms of the O'Rourkes: a metal casting from county Leitrim seventeenth-century foundries. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 123-42.
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