County: Kilkenny Site name: KILKENNY: Black Frewen House, Abbey Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0359
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 650301m, N 656166m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.654354, -7.256555
Monitoring of engineering trial-pits in advance of remedial works to Black Frewen House uncovered the wall footing for a substantial wall that is probably the basal section of the medieval town wall.
