County: Kilkenny Site name: THOMASTOWN: Market Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1461
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 658475m, N 641872m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.525075, -7.138271
Two small test-pits were cut through the floor of a terraced house between the Jerpoint Inn and the Allied Irish Bank, in Market Street. Thicker walls (c. 1.1m) found below the present front and rear walls, and a thick wall standing between the house and the AIB, appear to be the remains of a medieval building, with original floor level c. 0.7m below present floor level and a replacement floor level c. 0.2m higher.
The raised floor is almost certainly a response to flooding. Pottery suggests that the medieval building was demolished and replaced in the late 18th or early 19th century.
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