County: Kilkenny Site name: GRAIGUENAKILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK041-028001 Licence number: 04E0791
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 666257m, N 622199m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.347385, -7.027520
An assessment of a proposed single-house development was requested. Three archaeological sites lie within 250m of the proposed development area, a church and graveyard (SMR 41:28), a holy well (SMR 41:29) and a ringfort site (SMR 41:30). Documentary and archaeological evidence pointed to there having been an ecclesiastical foundation dedicated to St Machoevog pre-dating the extant medieval church.
Testing of the proposed development area uncovered four areas of archaeological potential: a ditched enclosure, which probably surrounded the monastic site in the 10th–12th century; two field ditches of 18th–19th century date and a pit containing chunks of iron slag, the waste from iron smelting. The footprint of the development was redesigned to avoid the archaeological remains.
Three-castles, Kilkenny
