Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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
- 52.65541, -7.25574
- SMR number
- KK019-026278-
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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
Late 12th-century post-and-wattle house (L c. 8m x Wth. c. 2.5m) tentatively identified as Wallace Type 1 excavated (02E1592) by Ian Doyle on the N bank of the River Breagagh, Irishtown, 40m NW of the Irishtown Gate (KK019-026001-) on the town wall (Doyle 2004, 278; 2004 unpublished, 20-22; Doyle 2006, 266-8). A post-and-wattle riverside fence (L 8m x H 0.2m) formed the S wall of the house and delimited a series of internal organic clay floor surfaces. The structure was succeeded by a second timber building (KK019-026275-) and series of riverside reclamation structures (KK019-026245-).
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
References
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 Unpublished report.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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Riverine revetmentunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.