Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Boston, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boston
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99588, -8.02427
- SMR number
- TN011-006----
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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed in the SMR (1992) as an enclosure and in the RMP as an enclosure site. Situated in pasture, on ground sloping gently to SW. Site depicted on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a semi-circular area with a limekiln on the S edge. Likely that this was a quarry which has subsequently been filled-in. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.