Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75736, -4.78844
- Cadw reference
- 20067
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at intersection of main island track and track to Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch.
History
Limekiln, probably earlier C19, the only example on the island.
Exterior
Limekiln, rubble stone, square plan with tapering sides to S kiln eye, timber lintel inserted dated 1986 and walling above missing. N kiln eye has lintel missing. Crucible infilled.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the history of agriculture on the island and as a landscape feature.
Nearby in the register
- Walls to Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog GochDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog GochDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court to Rhedynog Goch and Ty PellafDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.