County: Kilkenny Site name: Market Street, Thomastown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0043
Author: Caoimhe Ní Thóibín
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 658434m, N 641953m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.525803, -7.138873
The development was located on the west side of Market Street within the zone of potential for the historic town of Thomastown, Barony of Gowran, in Co. Kilkenny. Immediately north of the proposed development area are protected structures NIAH No.12317015 and NIAH No. 12317089.
Archaeological monitoring was undertaken of the topsoil stripping on the site of a commercial development of two adjacent properties in Market Street on 15 and 16 February 2018. The site was roughly rectangular in shape with groundworks located only in the rear yards of the properties. Structural foundations and a partial metalled surface were uncovered in the south west of the site. The remainder of the site had been disturbed by prior groundworks associated with the town sewerage pipeline and earlier commercial development. Preservation in situ was achieved by raft foundations and buffer layers protecting the archaeology below.
Hillside, Lower Grange, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
