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Kiln - lime

Coolroe, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - lime, Coolroe, 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
Coolroe
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.40667, -8.56595
SMR number
LI047-091----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 disused quarry, 24m E of townland boundary with Proonts. Indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated 'Lime Kiln' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Seoighe (1987, 376) recorded the following about this post-1700 lime-kiln known locally as Hannon's limekiln; ‘Up to the late 1930’s people came from far and near to Hannon’s limekiln at Quarry Hill to buy lime for the whitewashing of their houses, outhouses, piers and walls’. Overgrown limekiln visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 8 September 2021

References

Seoighe, M. 1987 The Story of Kilmallock. Kilmallock Historical Society. Limerick.

Nearby in the register

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

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