County: Kilkenny Site name: 6 Watergate Street, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026 Licence number: 07E366
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: Town wall
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 650364m, N 656264m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.655226, -7.255610
Monitoring of initial site clearance works for an apartment development immediately inside the town wall along the river Breagagh provided an opportunity to carry out a detailed survey of the defences at this location. The wall had been cut back and refaced on a number of occasions but it was still possible to reconstruct the line of its medieval wall walk, putlog holes and a slip gate to the river. At the west end of the site the massive stonework for a weir that channelled water into the brewery mill stream was revealed.
Kilkenny Archaeology, 12 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
