2007:965 - KILKENNY: 77 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: KILKENNY: 77 Maudlin Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019–026
Licence number: 07E1054
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 651048m, N 655981m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.652620, -7.245543
Two test-trenches were opened within the garden of No. 77 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny. No. 77 Maudlin Street fronts the south of the street, with the area of testing to the rear of a vacant dwelling house. Within the medieval suburbs of Kilkenny, St Mary Magdalen’s Hospital, a leper hospital, stood at the north side of the street.
The overall stratigraphy was consistent in both trenches, comprising a well-worked topsoil overlying a layer of 19th-century infill, which itself overlay a slightly silty clay. The natural deposition at the base of the trenches comprised a clean sandy clay. Otherwise nothing of archaeological significance was found.