2004:0895 - KILKENNY: Gas House Lane, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: KILKENNY: Gas House Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026
Licence number: 04E0393
Author: Colm Moloney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 651014m, N 656351m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.655950, -7.245980
Monitoring was undertaken during the excavation of 24 geotechnical pits adjacent to the retort house at Kilkenny gas works. The ground was heavily disturbed and contained small fragments of disarticulated human bone, modern ceramics and isolated architectural fragments. Demolition of the retort house revealed several dressed limestone fragments, including a window, possibly Tudor in date, which may have been salvaged from an earlier building and reused.