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Kiln - lime

Danescastle, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Kiln - lime, Danescastle, County Wexford, 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
Danescastle
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23849, -6.73081
SMR number
WX046-095----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low N-S ridge and within Carrick-on-Bannow village, c. 100m E of the N-S Main Street. Archaeological testing (04E0855) identified and partly excavated a limekiln. The kiln was circular (diam. 3.5m; D 1.65m) and lined with a clay and crushed Old Red Sandstone mix that had baked to a hard surface. It contained burnt limestone from its last firing. The flue (L 5.04m; Wth 1.35-4.35m; max. D 1.2m) was to the S and a perfectly preserved stoke-hole (Wth 0.63m; H 0.66m; T 0.51m) connected with the kiln. The few artefacts recovered and the context suggests an 18th century date. (Ó Drisceoil 2004-05; 2007)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 August, 2013
Amended: 11 Dec. 2013

References

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2004-5 Excavation of a limekiln at Danescastle, Carrick-on-Bannow. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society 20, 203-8.

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2007 Danescastle. Limekiln. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 464-5, No. 1797, Dublin. 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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