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Kiln - lime

Ballyanrahan East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - lime, Ballyanrahan East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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