Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Pace, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pace
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43771, -6.46785
- SMR number
- ME050-056001-
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
Located on slightly higher ground than the pits (ME050-056----) just to the S was a figure-of-eight kiln consisting of an oval pit (dims 1.37m x 1-1.2m; D 0.36m) connected at S to a circular pit (diam. 0.82-0.94m; D 0.46m). It was filled with silty clay with inclusions of charcoal and burnt bone over a red-stained clay indicating in situ burning. The oval pit produced charred evidence of wheat and barley but a sample of hazel charcoal from it yielded a C14 date of 422-596 cal. AD. A sample of charred hazel from the circular pit produced a C14 date of 267-540 cal. AD. The subsoil was scarred with ard-marks running NW-SE and NE-SW. (Elliott et al. 2008, 2-3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
References
Elliott, R., Clarke, L. and V. Ginn 2008 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 1 Clonee – Dunshaughlin. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Pace 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003031. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.