County: Kilkenny Site name: JERPOINT ABBEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK028-062005 Licence number: 04E1512
Author: Patrick Neary
Site type: Religious house - Cistercian monks
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 657150m, N 640224m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.510400, -7.158080
Pre-conservation development testing took place inside and outside the doorway of the chapter house at Jerpoint Abbey, in order to establish whether exposed archaeological strata would reveal earlier floor surfaces at levels beneath the existing surface and to seek further information in relation to the original chapter house door opening, in advance of a conservation programme that would entail potential disturbance to the archaeology of the area.
No lower floor surfaces were found, but there was a degree of rubble infill beneath the existing surface that contained occasional sherds of post-medieval pottery and some small fragments of disturbed human skeletal remains.
The excavations extended down below the levels of the building foundations, which were shown not to be very deep.
The cutting outside the door of the chapter house beneath the cloister walk revealed two stone-lined graves and evidence of disturbance to the burials at this location in the post-medieval period.
24 Talbots Inch Village, Kilkenny
