Survey Data
Reg No
15701941
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Kiln
Date
1945 - 1950
Coordinates
295760, 139561
Date Recorded
10/12/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-oven single-stage "beehive kiln", built 1946, on a circular plan. Now disused. Banded or braced red brick Running bond walls with banded or braced red brick Running bond parapet centred on red brick dome. Single elliptical-headed opening with red brick header bond voussoirs. Set in grounds shared with Carley's Bridge House.
Appraisal
A "beehive kiln" erected by Robert "Carley" Owens (1915-77) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century industrial heritage of the environs of Enniscorthy (cf. 15701942).