County: Kilkenny Site name: ROSBERCON: Roche’s Pub
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:13(07) Licence number: 02E1784
Author: Orla Scully
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 671147m, N 628219m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.400870, -6.954484
Testing took place here before the extension of a public house, by adding a new building in the yard at the east, and the creation of a carpark and playground at the south and west.
The site is in the vicinity of the site of a Dominican friary. Walls and burials excavated in 1995 during the New Ross Main Drainage Scheme by Sarah McCutcheon (Excavations 1995, No. 277, 95E0086) are probably part of the friary, founded in 1267. The OS map of 1843 shows three roadside cottages on the site of the area to be built on. The area is low lying and had been the subject of frequent flooding before improvements through the Main Drainage Scheme. The ground around Roche’s pub had been raised by introduced material in recent years.
Testing revealed that the upper layers are composed of recently introduced material containing modern debris. Below this, at a depth of c. 1m, the remains of walls of houses were exposed. The walls were composed mostly of stone but also contained red brick. Consequently, they were interpreted as pertaining to the cottages shown on the first-edition OS map. The foundations were built on estuarine silt. No walls, features or burials likely to be associated with the Dominican friary were exposed.
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