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Kiln

Curraghatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln, Curraghatoor, 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
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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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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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