County: Kilkenny Site name: COOLEESHALMORE/PURCELLSGARDEN/THREECASTLES/THREECASTLES DEMENSE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1167
Author: Patrick J.H. Neary
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 644940m, N 663042m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.716618, -7.334835
A 2km stretch of the R693 between Kilkenny and Freshford was realigned at Threecastles, a medieval town dominating a bridge over the River Nore and its floodplain. The chosen route avoided any recorded sites and monuments, but soil-stripping and earth-moving were monitored.
Other than the underground limekiln and human skeletons at Cooleeshalmore (see Excavations 2001, No. 685), and ploughed-out field boundaries and occasional relatively recent animal burials and pits, nothing significant was revealed.
24 Talbots Inch Village, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
