County: Kilkenny Site name: Abbey Quarter, Gardens, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-026101- Licence number: E004950
Author: Paul Stevens AMS
Site type: Medieval Urban. Religious House, St Francis Abbey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 650530m, N 656377m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.656226, -7.253140
Archaeological monitoring of Geotechnical Site Investigations was carried out in the area adjacent to St Francis’ Abbey (National Monument: 72) and within the Zone of Archaeological Potential for Kilkenny City (RMP KK019-026----), under Ministerial Consent C000853; Registration No. E004950.
Site Investigations comprised two trial pits and one borehole in an area to be developed for the Abbey Quarter Urban Park and Urban Street developments on the site of the former Smithwicks Brewery site, dating from the 1790s to 2010.
Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered. However, archaeological monitoring was limited in
scope and the potential for preserved archaeological material remains high.
Note: Monitoring under licence 17E0642 was also carried out of the same site investigations in areas outside of the national monument. (See separate entry).
c/o 12 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
