Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Kiltenan North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltenan North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53341, -8.84379
- SMR number
- LI020-153----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Built into enclosing earthen bank of ringfort (LI020-128---); face of kiln in line with front face of bank. Rectangular structure (5.2m NW-SE; 6.1m SW-NE) with opening facing NW. Front of opening (H 2.15m; Wth 2.5m) has rounded red-brick arch. Recess (D 2.5m) has square stoke hole (H 0.6m; Wth 0.6m) at rear. Top of kiln obscured by dense overgrowth of ivy. Two buttress support W angle of structure. To rear is sloping earthen ramp (L 15m; Wth 2.6m) crossing interior of ringfort.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.