Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Smithstown, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smithstown
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24552, -7.88030
- SMR number
- OF014-047----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of high ground in undulating countryside. Described in 1988 by the local landowner as 'about forty years ago, he found a horseshoe-shaped enclosure with large stone slabs inside, underneath he found a large amount of red and white ashes' (ASI file 1988). This is the site of a lime kiln of post-1700 AD date.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.