Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70153, -6.49062
- SMR number
- ME019-030068-
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
Corn-drying kiln number 2: This is located c. 17m to the NE of corn-drying kiln number 1 (ME019-030067-). It consisted of an oval chamber (dims 1.6m x 1.2m) with a passage (L 1.4m; Wth 0.4-0.65m) extending SE to open into a rectangular pit area (dims 2m plus x 2m plus) retained by walling at SW and NW but open in other directions. Much of the walling was reduced to a single course. This kiln is conserved in situ. (Eogan 2012, 184-5)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
Amended: 18 September 2020
See the attached illustrations:
_1 Early medieval features, from Knowth 5, Fig. 4:1
_2 Plan of kiln from Knowth, 5, Fig. 5:7
_3 View of the kiln looing W to the main mound
References
Eogan, G. 2012 Excavations at Knowth 5: the archaeology of Knowth in the first and second millennia AD. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
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