Survey Data
Reg No
60260048
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Building misc
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
322278, 221508
Date Recorded
08/12/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Flue, built 1836, on a curvilinear L-shaped plan. Decommissioned, 1863. Now disused. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble granite battered walls. Series of square-headed "inspection hatch" openings with cut-granite lintels. Barrel-vaulted interior with yellow brick Running bond lining. Lane fronted with tarmacadam footpath having cut-granite coping.
Appraisal
A lengthy, albeit intermittently breached flue erected by the Mining Company of Ireland (MCI) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Dublin (cf. 60260049).