2025:558 - Urban Block 5, Abbey Quarter, Gardens, Kilkenny, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: Urban Block 5, Abbey Quarter, Gardens, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026
Licence number: 25E0539
Author: Aisling Collins
Author/Organisation Address: ACAS, 45 Richmond Park, Monkstown, Co. Dublin
Site type: Urban post medieval
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 650560m, N 656209m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.654713, -7.252722
Archaeological monitoring of site investigation test pits and boreholes was carried out on behalf of Cumming Group on behalf of PI Hotels & Restaurants Ireland Ltd. at Urban Block 5, Abbey Quarter, Kilkenny. The site investigations were carried out in advance of purchase of the site for a proposed hotel.
The archaeological monitoring of test pits revealed river gravels at c. 3.1–3.5m below present ground level. These are overlain directly by redeposited post-medieval material dating to the late 17th or early 18th century.
The boreholes also revealed material datable to the post-medieval period. The depths of these deposits did not exceed 4m.