County: Donegal Site name: KEADEW LOWER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0379
Author: Declan Moore, IAC
Site type: Kiln
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 600202m, N 883207m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.696978, -7.996856
Excavation was carried out on the site of a drying kiln between 28 June and 3 July 1999, before the proposed Clar-Barnesmore road realignment.
Topsoil, sod and a single stone fill of the bowl were removed, exposing a kiln built into a natural ridge of peat. The kiln comprised a circular bowl with outwardly battered sides, built of randomly coursed, small to medium-sized, roughly rectangular stones with two courses of larger stones at the base, and an outwardly splayed, north-west/south-east-aligned flue, built of upright slabs and roofing lintels (only one of which survived). The bowl had been deliberately backfilled. A stone surface built on the peat ridge surrounded the kiln.
The feature had been extensively disturbed at the south-east end of the flue by construction works associated with the present N15 embankment and the earlier construction of the embankment for the railway to the south. It was not possible from the evidence gathered to arrive at a definite date for the kiln.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
