County: Kilkenny Site name: Lady’s Well, Thomastown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK028–040 Licence number: 06E0243
Author: Emma Devine, for Kilkenny Archaeology, Unit 11, Abbey Business Centre, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 658348m, N 642087m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.527020, -7.140104
An impact assessment of a residential development at Lady’s Well, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, was required prior to applying for planning permission for the proposed development.
Testing failed to uncover anything of archaeological significance. A large amount of rubble and made-up ground was identified and was probably a result of the demolition of terraced houses depicted on the first-edition OS. Garden soil layers were more than likely a result of this period of occupation too, due to the types and dates of finds recovered from the deposits; although one sherd of medieval pottery was recovered, all the other finds were of an overwhelmingly later, 19th–20th century, date, therefore the medieval sherd is thought to be residual.
