County: Cork Site name: CORK: Grattan St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 92E0209
Author: James Stack
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 566957m, N 571962m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.898831, -8.480133
A four-week excavation at Grattan St., was funded by the developers under the auspices of the Department of Archaeology, UCC. Four trenches were opened exposing post-medieval walls, drains and stone pathways along with a clay pipe kiln, the first to have been excavated in Cork.
The clay pipe kiln and stoke pit measured 1.4m x 1.6m and 1.12m x 1.26m respectively. The ash pit was surrounded by one course of red brick and its base was constructed of large flat flagstones. No muffle material was excavated from the surrounding area. The stoke pit was square shaped and lined with one to two courses of red brick. Its base consisted of a compacted brown/black clay with some pipe bowls and stems.
This clay pipe kiln was very similar in size and structure to kilns excavated at Oyster Street, Portsmouth, and Kiln 11 from Arcadia Buildings in Southwark, London (Peacey 1982).
The pottery from Grattan St. dated generally to the 17th and 18th centuries.
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