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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
52.65233, -7.25188
SMR number
KK019-026247-

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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

Two pits and a well identified in excavations (97E0334 and 98E0168) at 10-13 Kieran Street, within the SE of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Ó Baoill 1998. 105-6; O'Flanagan 1998, unpublished; Opie 2000, 117). Associated with a medieval stone structure (KK019-026246-), possibly part of a house, and reclamation make-up deposits. Further deep reclamation deposits preserved in situ underneath E side of existing Dunnes Stores building.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 16 November 2020

References

Opie, H. 2000 10–13 St Kieran’s street, Kilkenny: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 352, 117. Bray. Wordwell.

O’Flanagan, N. 1998 Report on archaeological test pit and test trench investigation, 10-13 Kieran Street, Kilkenny, licence 98E0167. Unpublished report. Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Ó Baoill, R. 1998 10–13 St Kieran’s street, Kilkenny: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 309, 105-6. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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