Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Mullagharlin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagharlin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97561, -6.39706
- SMR number
- LH012-080----
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
Discovered during archaeological monitoring (Excavation Licence No. 98E0440 ext.). Sub-rectangular in shape (L 4m; max. Wth 1.6m; D 0.5m) with a possible flue at N end, a fire-pit in the centre and a chamber at S end. Constructed of drystone walling. A number of stakeholes and postholes were found to NW of possible flue. (McLoughlin 2000, 213-4)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2000 Mullagharlin/Haggardstown, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 213-15, no. 610. Bray. Wordwell.
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