Excavated in 1990 by the Archaeological section of the Waterford
Corporation. The excavation report has not yet been published.
A plan of the kiln has been made available by the senior archaeologist
Orla Scully. The figure has been traced from this plan with additional
reference to colour transparencies taken during excavation. The
surviving structure is cut into contemporary ground levels. It
is divided into three rectangular zones. That at the top of the
page is the solid kiln base penetrated by a central channel which
served as a flue and ash pit. The floor of this flue is on the
same level as the central zone (outside the kiln) with which it
communicates. This central zone is the stoking pit in which the
kiln man worked. There is a step down into the stoke pit on the
left hand side adjacent to the kiln base. The zone at the bottom
of the page is also on the same level but is separated from the
stoke pit by a brick wall. The only aperture through this wall
carries a drain which discharges into a half barrel set into the
floor of the stoke pit. This lower zone probably served a storage
function. The lack of shovel access and the damp problem evidenced
by the drain make its use as a fuel store unlikely. Material recovered
from these features includes pipe reinforced muffle wall fragments,
shallow sagger rings, wig curlers and pipes dated by Sheila Lane
of the Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, to
the second half of the eighteenth century.