County: Kilkenny Site name: CASTLECOMER: Market Square
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1203
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 653211m, N 672919m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.804639, -7.210829
Kilkenny County Council requested that a pre-development assessment should be undertaken in advance of the erection of an extension to a fruit and vegetable shop. The site lay within the zone of archaeological potential as outlined in the Urban Archaeology Survey of Castlecomer. The square and its surrounding streetscape were developed in the 17th century by Lord Wandsford.
Five test-trenches were opened by hand in the area of the proposed development. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
6 Riverview, Ardnore, Kilkenny
