Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Curraghatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghatoor
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31264, -7.98838
- SMR number
- TS087-007012-
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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
On ground sloping gently to S, in gently undulating terrain, under pasture. A D-shaped pit (dims. 0.6m x 0.45m; D 0.24m), excavated (Excavation number E00455) by Doody (1992, 43; 2007, 35) has been tentatively interpreted by the excavator as a kiln-type structure, despite the lack of charred plant remains normally associated with corn-drying or lack of metal or pottery production waste (ibid. 35). The pit sloped to a flat base with charcoal enriched fill and occasional heat-shattered stones and a stone floor was set into the base of the kiln (ibid.). A channel (dims. 0.9m x 0.28m; D 0.16m), interpreted as a flue, extended from the SE of the pit and was U-shaped in profile with slightly splayed sides sloping to a flat base (ibid.). Structure similar to kilns of the early medieval period (ibid.) and does not appear to be related to any other excavated feature (TS087-007---- to TS087-007011-).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 November 2013
References
Doody, M. 2007 The excavation. In M. Doody, Excavations at Curraghatoor, Co. Tipperary, 9-35. Department of Archaeology. University College Cork.
Doody, M. 1992 Curraghatoor: Late Bronze Age settlement. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 43. Bray. Wordwell.
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