Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunshaughlin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50735, -6.52914
- SMR number
- ME044-065002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
A Kiln was just 3m outside the outer fosse of the large ring-ditch (ME044-065----) at SE. It was a complex figure-of-eight structure (max. dims 3.2m NW-SE; 1.4m NE-SW; max. D 0.3m) with 12 fills, most containing silty clays of a brown or orange colour, and some with red/orange burnt clay. (Piera 2020, 13-14)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 10 December 2021
References
Piera, M. 2020 Preliminary Excavation Report for The Willows, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. Licence: 18E0495. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.