County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY: 21 William Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0014
Author: James Eogan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 650469m, N 655863m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.651617, -7.254111
This work took place in response to a condition of the planning permission granted for the construction of a dental surgery to the rear of 21 William Street, a late 18th-century street. The site is within the area of the medieval town of Kilkenny and is bounded on its northern side by Guard Lane, a probable medieval laneway. Cartographic evidence suggests that there were no structures on this site in the mid-18th century. In the late 18th to mid-19th century three buildings were erected on the site, two facing onto Guard Lane and the extant No. 21. The Guard Lane buildings were demolished in the late 19th to early 20th centuries and the properties were amalgamated.
Four test-trenches were excavated to the rear of 21 William Street within the footprint of the proposed new building. They were excavated with a mini-digger and reached a maximum depth of 1.4m below present ground level. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
No further archaeological work is required on this site in advance of development.
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