2005:822 - WINSTON’S DEPARTMENT STORE, ST KIERAN’S STREET, KILKENNY, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kilkenny Site name: WINSTON’S DEPARTMENT STORE, ST KIERAN’S STREET, KILKENNY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:26 Licence number: 04E1618

Author: Sheila Lane, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.

Site type: Urban

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 650570m, N 655970m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.652570, -7.252607

The site is located to the rear, south-west, of Winston’s Department Store, St Kieran’s Street, Kilkenny, within the zone of archaeological potential for the historic city. Three test-trenches were excavated on site. The stratigraphy consisted of a sterile greyish-black silty clay underlying concrete and rubble. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted.