County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: P.D. Sweetman, Office of Public Works.
Site type: Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 651139m, N 655643m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.649577, -7.244246
In June 1975 a quantity of late 18th century material was found sealed under the floor of a room in the SE wing of the castle. It was found in a stone structure which was similar in design to a rake-out or flue of a lime kiln and had been set into an area dug out of undisturbed gravel.
The finds were sealed by the floor above and can be fairly safely dated to the third quarter of the 18th century. They include two selter bottles, wine bottles, imported Chinese porcelain, English delft ware, Dutch delft ware, chamber pots of salt-glazed ware, English porcelain, black ware and stone ware.
