Old Salt Pans

Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Salt Workings'. In pasture, on the S shore of Ballysadare Bay. The salt workings comprise a series of overgrown ruined buildings. One of the buildings (on an E-W axis) is a residential, two-storey, gable-ended house (7.3m E-W; 5m N-S) with an enclosed yard (7m E-W) on the E side. There is a chimney on the W gable. There is a small square, single story structure (5.35m x 5.3m) at the E end of the yard with a wide cut-stone arch. There is another building (7.4m N-S; 4.8m E-W) at right-angles to the latter with a door ope at the N end facing onto the seashore. There is the remains of a two-storey building to E with the foundations of other buildings evident. The remains are of 18th/19th century appearance. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012