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Excavation - miscellaneous

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65270, -7.25528
SMR number
KK019-026149-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

An archaeological excavation (92E0038) was carried out by John Channing in 1992 within plot that stretched from High Street to the western stretch of the town wall of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Channing 1992, unpublished; 1993). The plot is shown as wholly occupied by buildings extending N-S from Red Lane to James Street and E-W from High Street to the town wall on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. The site was occupied by the Presentation convent school and chapel, James's Street from 1800 until 1992, at which time it was demolished for construction of the present Market Cross Shopping Centre (Bradley 2000, 14).
Stone-lined and unlined pits containing medieval pottery were excavated adjacent to James's Street. One of the pits contained cess-like material. Also uncovered were two wells (KK019-026082-; KK019-026095-), portions of which were preserved in situ below the formation level of the present shopping centre.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 28 March 2022

References

Bradley, J. 2000 Kilkenny. Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 10. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.

Channing, J. 1993 'Presentation Convent and old brewery site', James St., Kilkenny: medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1992: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 39, no. 114. Bray. Wordwell.

Channing, J. 1992, Report on archaeological watching brief at Presentation Convent and Old Brewery sites, Kilkenny. Unpublished report.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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