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Riverine revetment

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Riverine revetment, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice 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. Canice Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65539, -7.25571
SMR number
KK019-026245-

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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

Series of revetments for reclamation on the N bank of the River Breagagh, Irishtown, 40m NW of the site of the Irishtown Gate (KK019-026001-) on the town wall, excavated (02E1592) by Ian Doyle (Doyle 2004, 278; 2004, unpublished, 20-22; Doyle 2006, 266-8). A post-and-wattle riverside fence succeeded by a 13th century masonry revetment wall (L 5.23m x Wth. 1.05m x H 0.6m) and timber revetment that included an oak baseplate which was a reused roof-timber dated by dendrochronology to AD 1177-8 (Doyle 2004, unpublished, 24). Revetment ran adjacent to medieval timber houses (KK019-026275-) and (KK019-026278-).

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 16 November 2020

References

Doyle, I.W. 2004 1 Irishtown (rear of), Kilkenny: urban medieval riverside fences, licence 02E1592. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1015, 278. Bray. Wordwell.

Doyle, I.W., 2004 River Nore (Kilkenny City) Drainage Scheme: archaeological excavation at rear of No.1 Irishtown, Kilkenny, licence 02E1592. Unpublished report. Margaret Gowen and Co Ltd.

Doyle, I.W. 2006 1 Irishtown, Kilkenny (rear of): urban medieval, licence 02E1592. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 1013, 266-8. Bray. Wordwell.

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

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