2019:396 - THOMASTOWN: Lady's Well Street, Pipe Street, Market Street, Low Street, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: THOMASTOWN: Lady's Well Street, Pipe Street, Market Street, Low Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK028-040, KK028-040001
Licence number: C00879 E004992
Author: Colm Flynn
Author/Organisation Address: Kilmainham, Mountmellick, Co. Laois
Site type: Watercourse
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 658430m, N 641951m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.525785, -7.138932
Monitoring of construction stage groundworks for the Thomastown Culvert Refurbishment Project took place between March and August 2019. The Thomastown Culvert is a late 18th- or early 19th-century water management system which brings water from Lady’s Well Street southwards under the existing streetscape until it reaches the River Nore at Low Street.
The project saw the opening of 5 access points or trenches over the existing culvert. At one of the trenches at Market Street some archaeological features were identified in the north-east corner of the trench. These features resembled the foundations of a stone building, and were identified at a depth of 0.55m below the existing tarmac street level. The archaeological features were drawn, photographed and preserved in situ. The archaeology likely dates to the post-medieval period.
No further archaeological features were identified.