2020:433 - KILKENNY: St John’s Junior School, Michael Street, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: KILKENNY: St John’s Junior School, Michael Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026
Licence number: 20E0537
Author: Edel Barry, Michael Greiner & Thaddeus Breen, Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 39A, Hebron Business Park, Hebron Road, Kilkenny
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 656751m, N 656163m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.653687, -7.161237
Monitoring of excavation work associated with the construction of a temporary prefabricated building at St John’s Junior School, Michael Street, Kilkenny took place between 9 and 11 December 2020, in compliance with Condition 6 of the grant of planning issued by Kilkenny County Council to the Board of Management, St John’s Junior School, under Planning Ref. 20/248.
A disturbed deposit of animal bone, likely to represent a waste pit associated with the primary butchery of cattle and sheep, was identified in one foundation trench.
No further finds, features or deposits of archaeological significance was revealed.
