Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Piercetown (dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercetown (dunboyne By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44851, -6.47005
- SMR number
- ME050-038001-
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
Two cereal-drying kilns are within the annexe attached to the S of Site 1 that was excavated (17E0080) by Deirdre Murphy (excavations.ie 2018:805), and a third is cut into its defining ditch at S. This kiln (dims 6.4m E-W; 3.05m N-S; D 0.58m) is the most northerly of the three and was keyhole shaped originally but two recuts have misshapen it. It has the firing chamber at W and five fills of silty clays, only one of which has a charcoal content. (Murphy 2019, P 16-18, 29)
See the attached plan from Murphy (2019, fig. 7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.