2008:716 - 83–84 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny, Kilkenny

Kilkenny Borough Council requested an impact assessment at the rear of 83–84 Maudlin Street, Kilkenny as further information in advance of a decision on a planning application for a residential development. The proposed development area lies on the eastern bank of the River Nore c. 70m outside the town wall surrounding the medieval suburb of St John and within a walled enclosure for the Magdalen leper hospital. An infilled millstream is positioned directly south of the proposed development area, on the line of the current Lime Tree Lane. This millstream flowed from an inlet on the east bank of the River Nore below Green’s Bridge and continued to ‘Magdalen Mill’, where it re-enters the Nore. A 19th-century waste pit containing a large quantity of sheep metacarpals was the only feature uncovered during the test excavations. This is indicative of the bone workers’ trade being in the general vicinity.