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Lismore, An Sailean. View of workers houses to North of quay.
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Lismore, An Sailean. View of lime kilns from North.
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General plan of the kiln site and its surroundings. The quarry is towards the top. (Colin Martin)
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Single kiln with two corbelled draw-holes. The site lies to the S of an estate boundary which separates it from Sailean B. A cottage 75m to the N may perhaps be associated with the kiln, but is probably later. Close to the cottage are the faint traces of a rubble-built quay (marked on an estate plan, sorry, can't find the reference at the moment!). The quarry face rises behind the kiln. Local tradition asserts that a track ran up the valley to Baligrundle, some 500m to the SE, where the workers lived. (Colin Martin)
DP 175055
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Top of the pot of Kiln 2 at Sailean B showing its brick lining. (Colin Martin)
DP 175086
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Colin Martin recording inside the pot of Kiln 2 at Sailean B. (Paula Martin)
DP 175087
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Rear structure of the main kiln at Sailean B showing the bridge abutment. Scale 2 metres. (Colin Martin)
DP 175096
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The manager’s house at Sailean B, showing the high platform beside it which may have been the upper level of an earlier kiln. (Colin Martin)
DP 175109
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Two conjoined cottages built on the quay. They are not marked on the 1871-2 OS 25-inch map, but appear in Beveridge’s 1883 photograph. (Paula Martin)
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Paula Martin surveying the cart shed near the range of cottages associated with Sailean B. (Colin Martin)
DP 175135
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Kiln frontage with two corbelled draw-holes and a lean-to annexe on the NE side. (Colin Martin)
DP 175056
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Aerial view of the Sailean B complex from the S showing quarry, kilns, stores and offices, quay, and cottages. (Colin Martin)
DP 175072
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General plan of the Sailean B complex (Colin Martin)
DP 175075
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The kiln structures at Sailean B, with the quarry rising behind. (Colin Martin)
DP 175082
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The top of the pot of Kiln 3 of Sailean B in foreground, showing extensive vegetation inside. The tree beyond is growing out of the kiln frontage. (Paula Martin)
DP 175090
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The iron structure and adjacent stonework between the two pot-tops of the Sailean kilns are the remains of a hoist for loading the kilns. (Paula Martin)
DP 175092
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SE side and rear structure of the main kiln at Sailean B. (Colin Martin)
DP 175093
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Draw-arch of the pot of Kiln 2 at Sailean B. The 50-cm scale is to the right of the stoke-hole. The two main scales are 2 metres. (Colin Martin)
DP 175098
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Draw-arch of the pot of Kiln 3 at Sailean B. The 50-cm scale is to the left of the stoke-hole. The two main scales are 2 metres. (Colin Martin)
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Stores compounds at Sailean B. The small enclosure on the right, which was roofed, was for storing processed lime. The larger open compound beyond it was for the coal brought in by sea, both for firing the lime-kilns and for sale locally. These compounds are not marked on the 1st edition OS 25-in map of 1871-2, but are evident in a photograph taken by Erskine Beveridge in 1883. The cottage in the background was the manager’s house and site office. It is shown as an unroofed building in the 1871-2 map. Beveridge’s photograph shows it in an evidently refurbished state, with a tarred roof. (Colin Martin)
DP 175102
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Surviving stonework and collapsed end of the quay. (Colin Martin)
DP 175118
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Quay stonework showing at least three phases of repair or rebuild. Scale 2 metres. (Colin Martin)
DP 175119
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The quay from seaward showing its collapsed end. (Colin Martin)
DP 175121
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Lismore, An Sailean. View of lime kilns from North-West.
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