Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Riverine revetment
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. John'S Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. John'S Par.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65643, -7.25194
- SMR number
- KK019-026207-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Timber riverine revetment fence excavated by Ian Doyle and Brenda O'Meara (01E0821) on E bank of the River Nore at John's Quay/Mayor's Walk (Doyle and O'Meara 2004, 3; Doyle 2006, 270-71). A section of post-and-wattle fence (L 12m) orientated NW-SE incorporating a tree-trunk revealed in the excavation (ibid.). Dating is uncertain but probably medieval and associated with attempts to reclaim the floodplain of the River Nore.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 13 November 2020
References
Doyle, I.W. and O’Meara, B. 2004 River Nore (Kilkenny City) drainage scheme archaeological excavations at John’s Quay/Mayor’s Walk and College Park, Kilkenny 2003, 01E0821. Unpublished report. Margaret Gowen and Co Ltd.
Doyle, I.W. 2006 Banks of the River Nore, Kilkenny: urban post-and-wattle fences, weir, tower. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003, summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1021, 270-71. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.