Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Murgasty, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murgasty
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47509, -8.16471
- SMR number
- TS067-123----
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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
An excavation was carried out in a green-field site, N of the medieval church (TS067-004003-) and graveyard (TS067-004008-), in advance of construction of a government office building (Cummins 2000, 203). An E-W orientated kiln structure was cut into the sand subsoil (ibid.). This consisted of a linear flue (L 8.5m; Wth 3.48m; D 1.2m) leading to an elliptical bowl at the E end (ibid.). It was keyhole-shaped in plan (ibid.). The sides were stone-lined, and a single lintel stone was found over the flue (ibid.). The kiln was filled with collapsed sand from the sides of the structure (ibid.). There was a basal, charcoal-rich deposit under the stone lining, which may contain evidence of charred cereal grains, indicative of a corn-drying function (ibid.). There were also small fragments of oxidised limestone in some of the overlying fills, which may suggest a limekiln function (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 June 2014
References
Cummins, T. 2000 Bohercrow Road, Murgasty, Tipperary: Burial-ground/kiln/hut site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 203 (No. 626). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.