2012:363 - KILKENNY: 6 Watergate Street, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: KILKENNY: 6 Watergate Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026
Licence number: 07E366
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: 12 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Multi-period
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.