Kiln in Readrinagh, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

The kiln in Readrinagh in Readrinagh could have kept a farmer watching for the right moment to collect lime for a field, with work piling up at home. When the moment comes, the cart is ready and the farmer remembers the horse has been lent to a cousin.

On the N side of a minor road. The random rubble front wall faces E and has a partly collapsed central recess (Wth 1.95m). There is a horizontal ledge across the front wall c. 2m above ground level. There is a truncated earthen ramp at the rear. The N side is revetted with stone, the S side is incorporated into a field boundary. There is a stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.8m). The limekiln is overgrown and is partly obscured by dumped material.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE068-123

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