County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY: Mother of Fair Love School, James Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:26 Licence number: 01E0687
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 650362m, N 655980m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.652678, -7.255674
The site lies c. 10m outside the medieval walled town of Kilkenny. The walls are extant at this point, upstanding to a height of c. 4m. The proposed development site is in an area in which a fosse to the wall may survive. The site also lies where the Urban Survey for Kilkenny (Farrelly et al. 1993, 51) records that the site of ‘St James’ Chapel’ or ‘St Mary’s Chapel’, built c. 1700, was located.
Two test-trenches were opened on the site in July 2001. Trench 1 was opened along the eastern section of the proposed development site parallel to the city walls, and Trench 2 was opened at right angles to Trench 1 and to the city walls. No evidence for a fosse outside the town walls or for St James’s Chapel was noted in the trenches, and stratigraphy in the trenches showed no medieval or post-medieval levels or finds.
Reference
Farrelly, J. et al. 1993 Urban Survey for Kilkenny. OPW, unpublished.
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