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Kiln - lime

Carrigeen (Coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - lime, Carrigeen, 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
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----

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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 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.

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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 October 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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