Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Knoxspark, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knoxspark
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20671, -8.50234
- SMR number
- SL020-166003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the E half of an inland promontory fort (SL020-166001-). Discovered in 1994 during the excavation of the promontory fort and described as a stone structure (L 2.8m NW-SE), consisting of a series of upright stones surrounding an area of burnt soil and charcoal (Mount 1995d, 78-9). The kiln was aligned with the flue opening to the NW and the oval furnace (0.9m x 1.3m) to the SE; it contained a charcoal-rich layer with fragments of burnt bone, sand and seeds that extended to the SE over an area 7.5m N-S by c. 4m E-W (ibid.). (Mount 2002, 112-13)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1995).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.