Survey Data
Reg No
12402021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Kiln
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
261118, 156297
Date Recorded
22/11/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay two-stage lime kiln, c.1825, on a square plan. Now disused. Random rubble limestone walls with base batter having dressed limestone tapered buttress piers, and dressed limestone quoins to corners to upper stage (coping now missing). Pointed-segmental-headed oven aperture with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and lining not visible. Set back from road in grounds of quarry with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone rounded coping.
Appraisal
A kiln representing a modest-scale artefact of the industrial legacy of County Kilkenny having supported the operation of a limestone quarry on site since the earl nineteenth century. Despite having fallen into the early stages of disrepair following a prolonged period of disuse the essential attributes survive in place including the profile of the oven exhibiting high quality stone masonry, thereby maintaining the position as a picturesque eye-catcher enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the local landscape.