Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - lime
Danescastle, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.