Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Garretstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garretstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53472, -6.55238
- SMR number
- ME038-071014-
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
This kiln (136) is an oval feature (dims 2.05m E-W; 0.85m N-S; max. D 0.28m at E) located in the central area c. 12m E of the central barrow (ME038-071001-) but its S half had been removed by the S boundary of the field system. It had three fills but the basal layer of a fire-reddened sandy clay was limited to the E end. The overlying charcoal layer included oak and some barley grains, one of which yielded a C14 date of 427-609 cal. AD (BETA 246973). (Rathbone 2009, 22)
True location: ITM (695965, 754806)
See the attached plans adapted from Rathbone (2009, figs 8, 14)
_1 Site plan;
_4 Corn-drying kilns;
Compiled by: Michael Moore#
Date of upload: 21 April 2022
References
Rathbone, S. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Garretstown 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003061. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
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