House - 16th/17th century

The National Monuments Service's description

A late 16th/ mid-17th-century gable and chimney is present in the S gable of no. 71 High Street (G.L. Ryan, Jeweller), indicating a house of similar age is incorporated into the present largely 19th-century house and commercial premises (Farrelly et al. 1993, 44). Excavations between the rear (E) of No. 71 High Street and the street frontage on the W side of Kieran Street undertaken by Sheila Lane (01E0254) revealed a circular well (int. diam. 1m) and c. 1.5m of medieval and post-medieval reclamation and make-up dumps (Lane 2002, unpublished; 2004, 277-8).

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 14 December 2020

References

Farrelly, J., O'Reilly, B., and Loughran, A. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Kilkenny (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Lane, S. 2004 71 High Street/St Kieran’s Street, Kilkenny: urban medieval/post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1014, 277-8. Bray. Wordwell.

Lane, S. and Sutton, D. 2002 Archaeological Excavation Preliminary Report No.71 High Street, Kilkenny licence 01E1031, Sheila Lane and Associates. Unpublished report.