County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY: Abbey Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0008
Author: Paula King, on behalf of John Channing
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 650300m, N 656166m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.654355, -7.256562
The excavation concentrated on house foundations positioned immediately outside the city wall adjacent to the Black Freran gate. A section of the city wall survived under the east gable wall of the house. Apart from the city wall, no undisturbed deposits or features of medieval date were identified.
Brooklawn House, Barna Road, Galway
