Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln
Adamstown (Middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown (Middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23423, -7.22228
- SMR number
- WA017-123009-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a SE-facing slope. Identified and excavated in archaeological monitoring (03E1064) of the re-alignment of a gas-pipeline (Dempsey 2006). A suboval pit (dims. 2.1m x 1.8m; D 0.65m) was lined with a fire-redenned oxidised clay and filled with layers of clay and some charcoal flecks. There were other pits and stakholes in the vicinity.
Dempsey, J. (2006) Adamstown and Ballyduff East. Pits, kilns and furrows. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 492, No. 1853. Wordwell. Bray.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.