2022:565 - KELLS PRIORY, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: KELLS PRIORY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK027-029004
Licence number: E05405
Author: Jo Moran, Archaeografix
Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford. X42PA48
Site type: Religious house - Augustinian canons
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 649790m, N 643250m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.538317, -7.266051
The service trench for an electrical cable duct approaching the precinct wall at Kells Priory was cut by hand, and a small excavation was made against the inside of the precinct wall. A wide ditch was found immediately outside the precinct wall, apparently medieval and predating the wall.
