County: Kilkenny Site name: Brewhouse Redevelopment, St Francis Abbey, Horse Barrack Lane, Gardens townland, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK026-019101 Licence number: E4766 Ministerial Consent C773
Author: Colm Flynn
Site type: Urban post-medieval
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 650485m, N 656268m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.655250, -7.253822
The development was undertaken as part of the Abbey Quarter Development, Kilkenny City. The Brewhouse Building is situated in close proximity to St Francis Abbey, which is a National Monument (No. 72, RMP KK019-026101), and protected under the National Monuments Acts (1930-2004). As part of the archaeological mitigation measures for the redevelopment of the Brewhouse Building, Horse Barrack Lane, Kilkenny City, the author was appointed to carry out archaeological monitoring of construction stage works. The archaeological monitoring resulted in the identification of previously unknown subterranean archaeological deposits and features. Following approval by the National Monuments Service, the author and archaeological team completed archaeological excavation, and archaeological recording resulting in preservation in situ, of the archaeology.
The identified archaeological features included lime mortar bonded limestone rubble walls, cobbled stone surfaces, and compacted earthen surfaces. These features likely related to 18th-century industrial brewing activities at this location. The artefacts included two fragments of architectural stone which had been reused as rubble fill, and two body sherds of Kilkenny ware, and several sherds of glazed red earthenware.
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