County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY FLOOD RELIEF SCHEME
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Paul Stevens for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 651097m, N 656151m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.654145, -7.244788
The Kilkenny Flood Relief Scheme is a large linear development within the City of Kilkenny, proposed to take place from summer 2000 to autumn 2003, on behalf of the developers, the Office of Public Works. The scheme incorporates river-widening and deepening, improvements to the flood defences, dredging and construction or alteration of new weirs and flood bunds and/or walls within the River Nore and its tributary, the River Breagagh.
Development will affect all associated quays, weirs, flood-plains, existing flood walls and berms along both rivers and will pass close to a number of known surviving recorded monuments, including sections of the city wall, bridge sites, mill-races, mill buildings and weirs. The route of the works has been subject to an environmental impact assessment compiled by RPS Cairns Ltd, which identified a number of areas of high archaeological potential. These areas are to be architecturally and archaeologically surveyed prior to and alongside archaeological testing. For the purposes of licensing, the testing for this scheme has been broken down into seven licensed test excavations (see Excavations 2000, Nos 531, 533, 535, 538, 544, 549 and 551).
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
