Kiln in Coolroe, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In disused quarry, 24m E of townland boundary with Proonts. Indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated 'Lime Kiln' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Seoighe (1987, 376) recorded the following about this post-1700 lime-kiln known locally as Hannon's limekiln; ‘Up to the late 1930’s people came from far and near to Hannon’s limekiln at Quarry Hill to buy lime for the whitewashing of their houses, outhouses, piers and walls’. Overgrown limekiln visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI047-091

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