Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Berrillstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Berrillstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54774, -6.55510
- SMR number
- ME038-068002-
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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 rise in a fairly level landscape. The penannular ring-ditch identified by GBS Prospection (2001, 9) was confirmed in archaeological testing (04E0417) by J. Dempsey (2004) when testing Testing Area 3, Contract 2, prior to the construction of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie: 2004:1184). The remaining area within the road corridor was completely excavated (E003062) by S. Rathbone as Berrilstown 1 in November 2006 (excavations.ie 2006:1510). Twenty six pits and a corn-drying kiln were excavated around the E edge of the ring-ditch, the pits being more dispersed with distance from the ring-ditch.
The keyhole-shaped kiln (dims 3.8m E-W; 1.8m N-S; max. D 1.08m) was c. 6m NE of the ring-ditch. It had evidence of in situ burning and six fills of silty or sandy clay with charcoal and burnt stone and bone fragments. There were also barley grains, but no dating is available. (Rathbone 2009, 3-4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 April, 2022
References
GBS Prospection 2001 N3 Navan to Dunshaughlin Road, County Meath: Geophysical Survey. Licence: 00R0064. Unpublished report, No. 2000/104. GBS Prospection
Rathbone, S. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Berrilstown 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003062. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Dempsey, J. 2004 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Report on the Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 3, Berrilstown, Co. Meath. Licence: 04E0417. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.