Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Carrigeen (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.32717, -8.19478
- SMR number
- LI058-007----
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 centre of modern coniferous plantation. Remains consist of a crescent-shaped flat-topped earth and stone mound (dims. 4.4m N-S x 1.4m E-W; base dims 8.1m N-S x 8.4m E-W; H 2m) with opening to W. Has the appearance of a small mound that has been quarried into at W. Depicted as a lime-kiln on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Mound appears to be the collapsed remains of this lime-kiln.
See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 October 2021
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