Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
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
- 52.65195, -7.25364
- SMR number
- KK019-026250-
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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
Possible urban tower house to rear of Nos. 25-6 High Street (NIAH 12000047 and 12000046), between Guard Lane and Poyntz Lane. Its foundations and a substantial ( > 2m deep) battered masonry wall were recorded running along the S side of Poyntz Lane in pre-development test excavations (97E0309) carried out by Martin Reid (Reid 1997 unpublished; 1998, 100-101). The building probably originally fronted onto High Street and the mid-18th-century buildings of 25 and 26 High Street may incorporate fabric belonging to the structure. The identified medieval wall was partially demolished but what remains was preserved in situ below the formation level for an apartment development.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 14 December 2020
References
Reid, M. 1997 Site Assessment at 25 High Street, Kilkenny, licence 97E0309, John Channing Archaeological Consultancy. Unpublished report.
Reid, M. 1998 25 High St., Kilkenny: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1997, summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 299, 100-1. Bray, Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Town hallunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.