Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Moneymore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneymore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71616, -6.34843
- SMR number
- LH024-041073-
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 pre-development excavation at the site of the former Drogheda Grammar School in 1998 (Excavation Licence No. 98E0544). Of drystone construction and cruciform in shape with a large circular bowl (D. 3.4m) and four stone lined flues at N, S, E and W. Found in association with a number of medieval buildings (LH024-041068-, LH024-041069-, LH024-041072-, LH024-041075-, LH024-041076- and LH024-041077-), the remains of the Archbishops palace (LH024-041078-) and two medieval corn-drying kilns (LH024-041070- and LH024-041074-). (Murphy 2000, 200)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.