County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY: River Bregagh at St Francis's Abbey Brewery
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:26 Licence number: 99E0385 ext.
Author: Paul Stevens for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 651097m, N 656151m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.654145, -7.244788
Monitoring of geotechnical trial boreholes within the River Breagagh took place in September 1999. The trial bores were in the Smithwicks Brewery complex, from the junction of the River Nore, along the length of the town wall and Evan's Turret, up to the site of Cotteral's Bridge.
No archaeological deposits or artefacts were noted within the core samples analysed. However, analysis of the relative depth of each borehole sample showed anomalies in the data, possibly caused by obstructions of large boulders, probably fallen from the town wall or the Horse Barracks buildings adjacent to the river. Finds from this site consisted mostly of modern or early modern pottery, glass and metal, with undated brick, mortar and animal bone from a large mammal (probably relating to activity associated with the 19th-century Horse Barracks).
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
