Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Kilfree, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfree
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97822, -8.54044
- SMR number
- SL044-048002-
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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 'Souterrain Possible'. Within Kilfree cashel (SL044-048001-). Built into the external face of the cashel wall at N is a small roofless U-shaped structure (2-2.5m N-S; 1.5m E-W) faced with stone (H 1m), open to NNE, possibly the remains of a ruined limekiln. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.