Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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
- 52.65306, -7.25349
- SMR number
- KK019-026201-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Medieval furnace excavated in 2002-2003 (02E1715) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil beneath former rear yard and below ground level of cellar for late 18th/early 19th-century houses and shops at 62-3 High Street, (NIAH 12000076 and 12000075) and 76 Kieran Street (NIAH 12000077), Kilkenny (Ó Drisceoil 2004, 276-7; 2005, 265-6; 2005, 43-61; 2012, https://excavations.ie/report/2012/Kilkenny/0023413/ and unpublished report). Excavations on the site in 2002-2003 documented a series of attempts to reclaim land (KK 019-026----) in the flood-plain of the River Nore (Ó Drisceoil 2005, 43-61). One of the earliest reclamation deposits contained the partial remains of an infant skull (KK 019-026200-). Once reclamation had been achieved, probably in the 13th century, the site was used as a rear-garden for iron smelting, represented by a bowl furnace (0.6m diam.) containing 50g of iron slag and, adjacent to it, a dense layer of charcoal and ash, which probably also derived from the processing of metal on-site.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 4 November 2020
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2012 63 High Street (rear of), Kilkenny. Licence no. 12E0110. Excavations.ie: database of Irish excavation reports (https://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Kilkenny/0023413/; accessed 31 July 2020.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2012 Archaeological Assessment of proposed alterations to 76 Kieran Street/61-2 High Street, Kilkenny City 12E0110, (Kilkenny Archaeology, unpublished report).
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2005 63 High Street (rear of), Kilkenny 02E1715, in I. Bennett (ed) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1012, 265-6. Bray, Wordwell.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2004 63 High Street (rear of), Kilkenny 02E1715, in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1013, 276-7. Bray. Wordwell.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2005 Archaeological excavations at the rear of No. 63 High Street (OK House), Kilkenny City, Old Kilkenny Review 57, 43-61.
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