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
- 53.70150, -6.49055
- SMR number
- ME019-030070-
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
Two corn-drying kilns, described as ovens, were built into the mound of Tomb 12. This feature is E of the passage of the tomb and consists of a fire-pit (diam. 1m; D 0.43m) with a fire-reddened base connected by a flue (L 2m; Wth 1m; D 0.2m) extending SW to a chamber (dims 2.25m x 1.5m) outlined by a single course of stones. No carbonised grain or other evidence of use was recovered, but the ovens post-dated the levelling of the passage tomb mound which occurred in the first millennium AD. They are not conserved. (Eogan 2012, 182)
True location: ITM (699573, 773502)
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 from Knowth 5, Fig. 5:5 (Right)
References
Eogan, G. 2012 Excavations at Knowth 5: the archaeology of Knowth in the first and second millennia AD. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.