Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Ballywalter (kilvemnon Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywalter (kilvemnon Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48430, -7.54758
- SMR number
- TS071-005----
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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
In lush pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Waste material from a clay pipe kiln identified during excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (Sleeman and Lane 1987, 157-8). The material indicates a late 17th/early 18th-century date for the kiln. No visible surface trace. Not shown on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. Field boundaries removed to N.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 29 September 2014
References
Sleeman, M. J. and Lane, S. 1987 Ballywalter, Co. Tipperary. In Cleary, R.M., Hurley, M.F. and Twohig, E. A. (eds), Archaeological Excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2). Cork Archaeological Studies, no.1.
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