Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marshes Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.98429, -6.38921
- SMR number
- LH007-158----
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Shown on 4 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
Discovered during the development of playing pitches at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Excavation Licence Nos. 02E0008 (area 17) and 02E0200). Excavation revealed a figure-of-eight shaped kiln (L 2.6M; Wth 1.33m; max. D 0.91m) flanked by two small enclosures. A piece of alder timber found in the northern kiln bowl yielded a calibrated radiocarbon date of AD 330-580. (Mossop 2002, 31-3, 47; Mossop 2004, 377; O' Hara 2004, 380)
References:
Mossop, M. 2002 Archaeological monitoring and investigations, Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth. Unpublished archaeological report. National Monuments Section, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Mossop, M. 2004 Marshes Upper, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 375-8 (No. 1335). Bray. Wordwell.
O' Hara, R. 2004 Area 17, Marshes Upper, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 380 (No. 1342). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.