County: Kilkenny Site name: 77 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019–026 Licence number: 07E1054
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: Urban, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 651048m, N 655981m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.652620, -7.245543
Two test-trenches were opened within the garden of No. 77 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny. No. 77 Maudlin Street fronts the south of the street, with the area of testing to the rear of a vacant dwelling house. Within the medieval suburbs of Kilkenny, St Mary Magdalen’s Hospital, a leper hospital, stood at the north side of the street.
The overall stratigraphy was consistent in both trenches, comprising a well-worked topsoil overlying a layer of 19th-century infill, which itself overlay a slightly silty clay. The natural deposition at the base of the trenches comprised a clean sandy clay. Otherwise nothing of archaeological significance was found.
