Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Industrial site
Kilwarden, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilwarden
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46994, -7.03620
- SMR number
- ME041-020----
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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
Situated on a slight W-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline recovered an iron bloom and revealed a concentration of iron slag (BGE: 1A/47/1) that was completely excavated (02E0868). It proved to be a natural but shallow depression (dims 2.2m x 0.85m; max. D 0.14m) filled with a loose black soil with plentiful charcoal and iron slag inclusions, but smelting had not taken place in it. (Tobin 2003; 2004; 2007)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 March, 2018
References
Tobin, R. 2004 Kilwawrden (BGE 1A/47/1): Industrial, iron smelting. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 418, No. 1482. Bray, Wordwell
Tobin, R. 2003 Gas Pipeline to the West: Section 1A. Archaeological Report, Kilwarden, Co. Meath. Licence No. 02E0868, Site Ref. 1A/47/1. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Tobin, R. 2007 No. 1482. Kilawarden. Industrial, iron-smelting. in Grogan, E., O'Donnell, L., and P. Johnston (eds) The Bronze Age landscapes of the Pipeline to the West: an integrated archaeological and environmental assessment, 326. Bord Gáis Eireann and Wordwell, Bray
Nearby in the register
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- Burial1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.