Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Cornamucklagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornamucklagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10771, -6.27823
- SMR number
- LH002-012004-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the slight NE-facing slope of a gravel ridge between the high and low water marks on the SW shore of the Newry River estuary. Archaeological excavation (E 4498) in advance of a new bridge recorded a metal-working area and two corn-drying kilns. Kiln 2 had two stone-lined flues (Wth 0.3-0.4m; L c. 3m) centered on the drying-bowl at the E end. Samples of ash, hazel, cherry, alder and blackthorn were identified as well as two carbonised barley grains. Sherds of souterrain ware and the stem of a decorated pin were recovered. A radiocarbon determination of AD 770-961 is recorded for one of the barley grains. The kiln (LH002-012003-) is just to the NE and the metal-working area (LH002-012005-) is c. 4m to the SE. (Walsh 2015, 303-05)
Date of upload: 25 October, 2016
References
Walsh, F. 2015 Archaeological Excavations at Cornamucklagh, Omeath, County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, vol. 28, No. 3, 297-308.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.