Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Treanmacmurtagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanmacmurtagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06429, -8.41003
- SMR number
- SL040-227----
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
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Lime Kiln. Built into an E-facing slope. A rectangular stone-built structure (L 5m; Wth 4.1m; H 3m; wall T 2.15m). It has an E-facing blocked-up opening (Wth 1m; H 1.4m; D 1.9m). and a buttress on its S side. There is a stone quarry upslope from the kiln. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 06 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.