What is recorded here

Youghal Brick Works fired clay into red walls for County Cork from the 1890s until the 1930s. Its Hoffman kiln still stands with twelve chambers and a tall chimney, while cattle shelter inside the hot brick rooms. The field around it is scattered with buried humps and loose bricks, waiting for someone to remember the labour that shaped them.

To S of Tourig river, just W of area named 'Old Brick Field' on 1842 OS 6-inch map, to S of 'Ordnance Ground'. Small section of late 19th/early 20th century brickworks survives; on site of earlier structures. Rectangular Hoffman Continuous kiln remains, erected 1895 (Breslin 1991, 138). Brick-built (33.4m N-S; 18.3m E-W), consisting of 12 kiln chambers arranged in 2 parallel rows with thick dividing wall between them. Now used as cattle shelter. Tall chimney (base: 3.6m x 3.6m) free standing at S end. Other remains include floors of drying sheds, concrete base of steam engine, foundation of Mill house and office buildings. A more technologically advanced continuous kiln was built in 1912 - 'Buhrer Mechanical Draught Kiln' - but was dismantled in 1930s (Breslin 1991, 110). Area of 'Old Brick Field' contains numerous grass-covered humps; bricks everywhere. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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