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Kiln in Cahernamart

Kiln
Kiln in Cahernamart
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Freestanding single-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1897, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with part ivy-covered squared limestone stringcourse below parapet. Single camber-headed oven between mass concrete piers with squared limestone voussoirs. Set in tarmacadam carpark.
A lime kiln representing an important component of the nineteenth-century industrial architectural heritage of Westport.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31212074

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sportsfile, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
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