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
- 53.44843, -6.47006
- SMR number
- ME050-038003-
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 9.56m E-W; 3.54m N-S; D 0.4m) was cut into the enclosure ditch, which demonstrates that the enclosure did not have an inner bank. This kiln also had the firing chamber at the E end and had four fills with charcoal and burnt clay. (Murphy 2019, 18, 31)
See the attached plan of the enclosure from Murphy (2019, Fig. 7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.