Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Rath Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.00746, -6.18050
- SMR number
- LH008-099005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Partially excavated in advance of a housing development (Excavation Licence No. 02E0530). A stone built circular structure (diam. 4.2m; D c. 0.6m) with four stone lined flues. Preserved in-situ. (Clutterbuck 2002, 13-4; Clutterbuck 2004, 384-5; Clutterbuck 2006, 240).
References:
Clutterbuck, R. 2002 Preliminary report on the rescue archaeological excavation at Rath Lower, Grange, Co. Louth. 02E0530, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Clutterbuck, R. 2004 Rath Lower Medieval grange. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 384-5 (No. 1360). Bray. Wordwell
Clutterbuck, R. 2006 Rath Lower Medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 240 (No. 1288). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.