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Kiln - corn-drying

Bailis, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - corn-drying, Bailis, County Meath, 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
Bailis
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64797, -6.65284
SMR number
ME025-095003-

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The corn-drying kiln had been identified in the archaeological testing, and it occupied the N edge of a large cut (max. dims 12.7m N-S; 5.2m E-W; D 0.5m) in the subsoil. It consisted of a stone-lined bulb-shaped pit (int. dims 4.14m E-W; 3.16m N-S; D 0.5m) with an opening to the E where it widens outwards (Wth 0.55-1.05m). The wall is double-faced with a clay core (Wth 2.1-2.4m) at S but the facing is set into the edge of the cut on the N side. The exposed bedrock at the centre had been scorched red, and was covered by a thin layer of silty clay that produced post-medieval pottery, glass and animal bone. The upper fill of silty clay had similar material. Within the cut to the S were several deposits of charcoal-rich material that was probably rake-out from the kiln. (McGlade and Ruddy 2019, 29-31)

See the attached plans from McGlade and Ruddy 2019 (figs P 33, 29) _01 site plan; _02 Kiln plan;

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 April, 2023

McGlade, S. and Ruddy, S. 2019 Excavation of Site A, Bailis, & Monitoring Alexander Reid, Navan. Licence: 16E0449. Unpublished report, Archaeology Plan

Nearby in the register

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

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