Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Killegland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50871, -6.41088
- SMR number
- ME045-074001-
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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 fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (05E1321) by S. Halliday (2007) identified archaeological features (excavations.ie 2006:1496) that were further excavated (06E0782) by the same archaeologist when parts of a circular and a subrectangular enclosure were recorded (excavations.ie 2006:1498). Six kilns were also excavated in this area, within the enclosures and outside them. They were usually of figure-of eight type, appearing as oval features (dims 2.1-4.1m x 0.84-1.48m; D 0.13-0.35m) with distinct bowls and shallower flues and had fire-reddened bases. Their particular use is not yet determined and their relationships with the enclosures are uncertain, but in at least one case the flue of a kiln cuts the outer edge of the fosse of the circular enclosure. (Halliday 2008, 21-23)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 December 2021
References
Halliday, S. 2008 Preliminary Archaeological Excavation Report. Road 3, Killegland, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. Licence: 06E0782. Unpublished report, Arch-Tech
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
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- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.