Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Summerhill Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerhill Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48034, -6.72281
- SMR number
- ME043-059001-
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
There is a cereal drying kiln inside the SE angle of the rectangular enclosure (ME043-045----) evident as an oval feature (dims 4.86m N-S; 0.85-1.62m E-W), and it may have had a stone-lined flue. Its clay-lined base was fire-reddened and it was filled with four layers of silt which yielded carbonised cereal remains that produced a C14 date of 690-890 cal. AD. The kiln was disturbed by a tree-bole but it may have been dumb-bell shaped with the drying chamber at the higher S end. (Collins 2009, 27-8)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.