2003:1006 - KILKENNY: Black Frewen House, Abbey Street, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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

Author/Organisation Address: —

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.