Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Patrick'S Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Patrick'S Par.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64960, -7.25195
- SMR number
- KK019-026251-
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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 pits within the former walled burgage plot for 26 Patrick Street, situated to the rear of a mid-18th-century (NIAH 12001026) townhouse and the Kilkenny Theatre’s former location, where it stood between 1902 and 1962. Five pits (max dims 3.8m N-S, 1.8m E-W, D 1m) containing Highhays ware and Kilkenny-type medieval pottery and animal bones, and a possible fosse (Wth 0.9m x D 0.7m) were excavated by Jacinta Kiely ( 99E0165) in advance of a development to the rear of the house (Kiely 1999 unpublished; 2000, 148). The foundations for a post-medieval building were also noted in the excavation. Whilst the site was fully excavated further archaeology relating to the former burgage plot may extend beyond the excavation area to the W.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 14 December 2020
References
Kiely, J. 2000 26 Patrick Street, Kilkenny: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1999, summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 451, 148. Bray, Wordwell.
Kiely, J. 1999 Archaeological Excavation Report, 26, Patrick Street, Kilkenny, licence 99E0165, Eachtra Archaeological Projects. Unpublished report.
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