Kiln in Kilnashane, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Situated in undulating countryside. Depicted as a lime-kiln on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown as a horseshoe-shaped mound on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the 25-inch map as a mound (diam. c. 20m) with a raised area (c. 60m E-W) around it from E-NNW. This mound probably represents the levelled remains of the lime-kiln depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Today there are no visible surface remains. Reference to a moated site here (Feehan 1983, 247).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA030-012

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