Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Ballyanrahan East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyanrahan East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60250, -8.71942
- SMR number
- LI012-086----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture 100m SW of a burial ground (LI012-087---) and 100m E of a 'Thrashing Machine' as shown on 1840 OS 6-inch map. Post-1700 lime-kiln depicted as a rectangular structure on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Lime Kiln Disused’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where two rectangular structures (approx. dims. 8m N-S x 10m E-W) are depicted to the N of a sub-circular shaped hollow (approx. dims. 10m N-S x 13m E-W) with an opening in the SE. No surface trace remains visible today. Cropmark of levelled kiln visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.