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Kiln in Glen North

Kiln, lime

What is recorded here

Built against natural slope, on SW side of laneway. Random-rubble sandstone walls encase earthen core; rough buttress on S side. Front elevation (H c. 4m; Wth 4.8m) faces W, tapers slightly inwards with height; corbelled recess (H 2.66m; Wth 2.5m; D c. 2m) with sloping slabs at rear. Infilled funnel (diam. c. 2m). Two beam holes on corner of front elevation just above height of recess.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO040-086

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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