Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Coolroe, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.