Excavated in 1988 by the Archaeological section of the Waterford
Corporation. The excavation report has not yet been published.
A site plan of the kiln at the scale of 1:20 has been made available
by the senior archaeologist Orla Scully. The figure is traced
from this plan taking into consideration additional information
supplied upon request. The kiln had been partially destroyed,
in its south eastern quarter (top left of figure), by the construction
of a later well. The paved section of the sunken area is interpreted
as a flue/ash pit. To the right of this there was no change of
level to, what is described in the excavation record as, a 'brown
clay floor'. To the north, the stoke pit is described as a 'blackened
clay floor'. In the overlaying stratigraphy the undelineated edge
between the flue/ash pit, stoke pit and south west quarter of
the kiln is duplicated in a definite edge to a black deposit of
'cinders, charcoal, ash etc.' (see Appendix 5 Figure 118). The
V sectioned pit extended downwards 0.9m below the sunken floor.
This may possibly represent a drainage sump similar to the one
occupying a similar position in the kiln from Arundel Square
(Figure 55). Pipe reinforced muffle material similar to the English norm
covered the stoke pit floor. Pipes from the kiln have been dated
by Sheila Lane of the Department of Archaeology, University College,
Cork, to the second half of the eighteenth century.