Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Mullagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72883, -7.82576
- SMR number
- LF013-148----
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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 low hill in undulating pasture. A medieval corn-drying kiln, excavated in 2009, was at the W extent of the site that also included a burial ground (LF013-146----) and a possible medieval field system (LF013-147----) (Stephens 2009b). The excavation revealed that the kiln had been constructed within an earlier fosse. The structure was dumb-bell-shaped and comprised a subcircular bowl (diam. 1.6m; D 0.5m) and a long narrow curving flue (L 4.2m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.5m) aligned NE-SW, defined by a series of upright slabs. Stephens (ibid.) believed that this led to the drying area which lay outside the excavated area but also noted that the charcoal-rich fill in the flue petered out in the bowl and that the bowl could conceivably have been the drying area.
The attached image is uploaded courtesy of M. Stephens.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 22 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.