Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Bonestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bonestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52280, -6.52823
- SMR number
- ME038-041----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified a spread of charcoal and oxidised clay (BGE: 1A/18/1) which was completely excavated under the same licence. It resolved into an oval area (dims 2.4m N-S; 0.52m E-W) consisting of two oval pits with charcoal-rich fills surrounded by a halo of oxidised clay. There was no evidence of a connecting flue at this severely truncated monument. (Tobin 2002, 2004)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 March, 2018
References
Tobin, R. 2003 Archaeological Monitoring, Gas Pipeline to the West, Section 1a, Ballough, Co. Dublin to Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath. Licence No. 02E0194. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen and Co.
Tobin, R. 2004 Bonestown (BGE 1A/18/1) Kiln / double hearth, 02E0194. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 548-9, No. AD 17. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.