2001:683 - CASTLECOMER: Market Square, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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.

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