Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Pits excavated in burgage plots that extended 135m W from the rear of 28-29 Lower Patrick Street to the town wall. The present mid-18th-century house (NIAH 12001024) on the street frontage may incorporate earlier fabric, particularly at basement level. John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny depicts a walled burgage plot extending from the rear of a substantial house-complex on Lower Patrick Street. Excavation in the rear plot by Judith Carroll (97E0468, Area 4; 98E0092, Area 7) in advance of development of the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel and offices uncovered to the N and S of a standing garden wall pits, a NNW running stretch of palisade trench (probably a former burgage fence) that continued to the N (KK019-026255-) and linear gullies of medieval date (Carroll 1999, unpublished; 2000, 118-20; 2000, 121-3; 2002, unpublished). The excavator suggested the NNW stretch of the palisade trench may have acted to define the rear (W) of the medieval burgage plots that ran off of Lower Patrick Street, with the area between it and the town wall being open commonage (Carroll 2002, unpublished, 36). Archaeological features in the rear of No. 29 were preserved in situ beneath geotextile.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 14 December 2020

References

Carroll, J. 2000 26 – 29 Patrick Street, Kilkenny: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1998, summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, no. 356, 118-20. Bray. Wordwell.

Carroll, J. 1999 Archaeological Excavation of Site at Rear of the Hibernian Hotel, No.33 Patrick Street, Kilkenny licence 97E0402, Judith Carroll and Company Ltd. Unpublished report.

Carroll, J. 2002 Patrick Street/Pudding Lane/ Pennyfeather Lane, Kilkenny: Results of an archaeological Excavation 1998, Volume 1: Main text with illustrations, licence 97E0468, Judith Carroll and Company Ltd. Unpublished report.

Carroll, J. 2000 Patrick Street/Pudding Lane/Pennyfether Lane, Kilkenny. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1998: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, No. 358, 121-3. Bray. Wordwell.