County: Meath Site name: ABBEYLAND/BLACKCASTLE DEMESNE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0590
Author: Niall Brady, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Kiln - corn-drying
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 686792m, N 768269m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.656977, -6.686955
The buried remnants of a previously undiscovered corn-drying kiln were uncovered while removing topsoil deposits on the north bank of the River Blackwater, in advance of the Navan Inner Relief Road 2A. The site straddles the townland boundary between Abbeyland and Blackcastle Demesne. It lay beneath a later hedgerow and roadway that had truncated the site.
The kiln was excavated between 18 and 22 December 1998. It consisted of a single stone-built bowl and a stone-lined flue pit that was cut into the underlying boulder clay. The flue was oriented almost at right angles to the bowl and was set at a lower level. No artefacts were recovered. Soil samples were retrieved for further analysis.
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