Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Killeisk, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeisk
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86671, -8.08212
- SMR number
- TN021-107003-
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
At the far W of the site, is a further area measuring approx. 10m x 15m within LMA.
This area uses the 'modern' field boundary to the E and a further 'L' shaped ditch to
the W. Inside this area is a 'bow-tie shaped' lime kiln 6m long consisting of a central circular chamber and two lateral rake-out boxes. The whole is stone lined and the floor of the fireboxes is made of a type of lime mortar. The central chamber had a couple of parallel, carbonised sticks on the base. The rake-out boxes may have multiple floors. The central chamber is only c.0.50m across and is likely to have been the base of a funnel-shaped vertical flue with the chamber above in which lime was burnt.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.