County: Kilkenny Site name: ST MARY'S CHURCH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0112
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Church
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 663316m, N 653485m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.628903, -7.064723
Service trenches associated with the refurbishment of the chancel of Gowran parish church were cut by hand through the present graveyard.
On the north side of the church a stump of mortared stonework was found set into a hard medieval surface, perhaps the market area. The surface appeared to overlie graves, and to the east, beside the chancel, the surface was covered with an imported soil and the ground used again for (late medieval/early post-medieval?) burial.
A medieval mortuary building was identified beside the chancel (attached to the medieval chancel), and a medieval kiln (grain-dryer?) found at the west end of the present graveyard, presumably outside the medieval precinct.
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