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Kiln

Ballywalter (Kilvemnon Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln, Ballywalter (Kilvemnon Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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