Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Kilcoole, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoole
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10771, -6.06235
- SMR number
- WI013-029005-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two furnaces were discovered here in 1998 during archaeological monitoring of works associated with the construction of a dwelling (Excavation Licence 98E0244). Furnace 1 was tadpole-shaped in plan (L 2.3m; Wth 0.48m; max. D 0.4m) while furnace 2 was pear-shaped in plan (L 1.52m; Wth 0.56m; max. D 0.26m). Finds included a number of small pieces of iron slag, a piece of burnt, glazed, medieval pottery, an animal tooth, a flint flake and a struck flint pebble. (Byrnes 2000, 221-2)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 January 2013
References
Byrnes, E. 2000 Lott Lane, Kilcoole. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 221-2 (No. 692). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.