Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Kilbride (arklow By., Kilbride Ed), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride (arklow By., Kilbride Ed)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81058, -6.16762
- SMR number
- WI040-050----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the record for the furnace excavated by Breandán Ó Ríordáin (97E0083) on the Arklow bypass road scheme. The remains occupied a space of 1.1m x 0.85m with a max. depth of 0.5m. The furnace had a lining of two stones, one on either side, and a crescent wall of solid iron slag. No finds other than fragments of slag and waste iron were recovered.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.