Dukesmeadows

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dukesmeadows, from 33 m² to 81,054 m² (8.11 ha, 20.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  for change of use and alterations and additions to the existing former bank building (including addition of a setback storey/third storey) to provide a new mixed-use retail and commercial development including a café and ancillary uses. Retail and commercial uses are proposed to be provided on the ground floor, first floor and second floor, with a café proposed on the third floor. The proposed development comprises demolition works including removal of internal walls and parts of the façade across all floors, removal of the stair to the?northern?entrance and extension at the north-eastern corner of the building, removal of the stair to the southern entrance, removal of stairs and entrance on the eastern side of the building and other external structures at ground level, and removal of the roof. The development also includes?construction works including an extension to the eastern side of the building to accommodate a lift, new stair core,?restrooms, storage, services & external plantroom; extension to the southern side of the building at first and second floor comprising a cantilever bay?window; addition of a new, set-back third floor with viewing terraces and a flat roof with PV panels; a new facade with glazing at ground and third floor; new steps, handrail and planter to the south of the building?and all associated works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660565

• 29 Jan 2026Refused

  of P.21/522

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2610

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  of 3 no. short-term let accommodation units including internal material alterations and associated works on the ground floor level of No. 4 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny R95 D79H and the first and second floor levels of No. 5 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny R95 P77E. The proposed development consists of works to No. 4 Rose Inn Street which is a Protected structure (Protected Structure Ref: B172 Kilkenny City) and is recorded on National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Ref. No. 12000149) and No. 5 Rose Inn Street which is recorded on National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Ref. No. 12000150). The proposed development also consists of works to structures which are located within the City Centre Architectural Conservation Area.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560827

• 11 Nov 2025N/a

  to retain indefinitely 3 no. short-term let accommodation units including internal material alterations and associated works on the first and second floor levels of 5 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny, R95 P77E. The proposed development consists of works to a structure which is located within the City Centre Architectural Conservation Area and is recorded on National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Ref. No. 12000150)

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560719

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  for proposed demolition of existing 2-storey dwelling house and garage, and proposed erection of new replacement 2-storey dwelling house and garage, and all associated site works at Castle Springs, Canal Walk, Kilkenny, R95 HDK6. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) was submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560043

• 26 Jul 2024Refused

  for a single storey dwelling on a partially developed residential site permitted under planning permissions P03/629 and P14/589, to include for ancillary garage/storage, completion of site entrance works, internal access drive, site boundary treatments, site drainage and all associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application,

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460360

• 11 Sept 2023Refused

  for two-storey dormer residence, detached garage, new vehicular entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360409

• 1 Feb 2023Conditional

  for (a) demolition of existing sheds to side and rear of the existing dwelling, (b) construction of a new two storey extension to the South Western side of the dwelling, (c) construction of replacement store/shed in rear garden, (d) alterations and refurbishment of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360033

• 24 Feb 2022Refused

  for development at this site. The development will consist of the subdivision of existing dwelling plot for the construction of 2 no. detached 4-bedroom dormer dwellings. Access to the proposed dwellings will be via the utilization of the existing vehicular entrance to create a shared entrance to provide access to each individual dwelling plot. This application further proposes: demolition of existing domestic garage, amendments to existing dwelling site boundary, new boundary treatments between dwellings, site landscaping, provision of foul and surface water disposal and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 22111

• 11 Feb 2022N/a

  for development at this site. The development will consist of; the subdivisioin of existing dwelling plot for the construction of 2 no. detached 3 bedroom dormer dwellings. Access to the proposed dwellings will be via the utilization of the existing vehicular entrance to create a shared entrance to provide access to each individual dwelling plot. This application further proposes; amendments to existing dwelling site boundary, new boundary treatments, site landscaping, provision of foul and surface water disposal and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2279

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  erection of new signage to front elevation of building which is a protected structure (RPS B9 and B10) and ancillary related works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21925

• 29 Jul 2021N/a

  to erect a new sign on the front of the property (which is a protected structure)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21655

• 15 Jun 2021Conditional

  for development works to improve universal access to the castle and grounds to consist of the following: 1.The Installation of a Universally Accessible Lift to the north turret of the mid-19th Century Long Gallery with associated works,including part demolition of late 20th Century intermediate floor (12m2) and late 20th Century flat roof (11m2) and construction of a new,lead-clad, roof structure. 2.The construction of external steps and ramps adjacent to the north turret to provide access to the basement level. 3.The removal of late 20th Century steps(6m2) and partial removal of 20th Century Plant room(5.5m2) and 19thCentury store (33m2) to facilitate new universal access. 4.The provision of Universally Accessible W.C.& additional W.C. facilities (45m2) in the existing 19th Century basement, semi-vaulted area, external to the castle. 5.Re-landscaping works to the Castle Courtyard and curtilage, involving the permanent display of the recent archaeological excavations of Marshal's Gate (medieval entrance) which is to be partially uncovered with the formation of new embankments, a new pedestrian route and associated treatment. 6.Resurfacing works to the Castle Courtyard, including the removal of 20th Century grassed areas and replacement of existing tarmacadam surface with a new surface(2692m2). 7.Rationalisation of futureproofing of services within the courtyard, to include the installation of new drainage. 8.Conservaton and restoration of Kilkenny Limestone pavement and earthenware channels to the perimeter of the Courtyard. 9.Resurfacing works to the Formal Garden to the northwest of the Castle with the replacement of the existing tarmacadam surface treatment with a new surface(2238m2). 10.New sloped paths to provide Universal Access to the perimeter of the Formal Garden (22m2). 11.Resurfacing works to the linking path between the Formal Garden and Castle Courtyard with the replacement of the existing tarmacadam surface treatment with a new surface (872m2). 12.The replacement of existing temporary security cameras with permanent cameras and fixtures. 13.The Installation of Emergency Lighting at high level to the Castle Courtyard Facades

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21522

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  to install a pontoon and access gangplank/platform into the River Nore at the existing splitway down to the rivers edge at the South Western side of John's Bridge

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20158

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  for two storey dormer residence, detached garage, new vehicular entrance and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18215

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  for alterations to existing Planning permission Ref: 14/589 to include raising the finished floor level of the previously permitted house along with associated elevational and site alterations

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17365

• 11 May 2017Refused

  to retain; at café/restaurant. to include also, sale of hot food, take away and home delivery, during the hours 1700 hours and 0200 hours. This is a protected structure.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17307

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  to carry out elevational modifications, construction of new escape stairway and life shaft internal modifications and all associated development works. The development site adjoins: 1. Kilkenny Castle and Gardens which is a National monument and protected structure (National Inventory Reference No.12001066), 2. The Parade water trough which is a protected structure (National Inventory Reference No. 12001069), 3. Municipal Walk which is a protected structure (RPS No B198), 4. No. 11 Rose Inn Street, which is a protected structure (National Inventory Reference No. 12001070)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17278

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• KK019-026078 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Kilkenny Castle is sited on the S side of the city of Kilkenny, on a glaciofluvial terrace of limestone gravels and boulder clay on the south bank of a meander in the river Nore, 12m above the level of the river. The present castle, largely rebuilt in the early 19th century and comprising three wings to the N, W and S, corresponds generally with the Inner Ward of the early 13th-century masonry castle built by William Marshal, earl of Pembroke and lord of Leinster (d. 1219). Between 1207 and 1213 the earl was ‘in exile’ at Kilkenny Castle from the royal court of King John, and this period saw the creation of Kilkenny as the de facto political capital of the lordship of Leinster and, commensurate with its new-found standing in the urban hierarchy, a largescale expansion of the adjoining town (Crouch 2017, 39; Bradley 2000, 2). On the death of William Marshal the elder in 1219 his first son William gained seisin of the castle and town of Kilkenny and four years later he issued an extended charter to the burgesses (McNeill 1931, 71-4; Crouch 2015, 275-6). Following the younger William’s death in 1230 the castle and town were assigned, in succession, to the estates of his four younger brothers, who famously all died without male issue. In the ensuing partition of Leinster in 1247 the castle and town passed to the third son of the younger Isabel Marshal, Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (Orpen 1920, vol. 3, 325). The de Clares retained the castle until the fourth Earl of Gloucester died in 1314, at which time it descended to the le Despencers, Barons le Despencer, who in 1391 sold their Kilkenny estate to James Butler, the third Earl of Ormond (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 171; vol. 3, 49, 51; Curtis 1932, vol. 2, no. 297). The castle was to remain in the Butler family until 1967 when it was sold to the state. The castle is now a National Historic Property in the care of the Office of Public Works. The historical record is not particularly illuminating regarding the overall plan of the original 13th century masonry castle built by William Marshal. The earliest reference directly linking the earl with the castle is in his 1207 charter to Kilkenny, which refers to ‘the bailiffs of my castle’ and to the provision that ‘no burgess shall have to face a lawsuit in the castle’ (Bradley and Murtagh 2017, 246-7). In 1210 the Marshal quartered King John's enormous army and hosted a 'most lavish reception' for the king at his castle, at the beginning of the king's two-month campaign to restore royal authority over the barons in Ireland (Holden et al 2004, 14258-60). The account of King John at Kilkenny Castle includes a reference to a gate-building at the castle. The only other contemporary record of the Marshal at Kilkenny Castle is contained in the Histoire de Guillaume de Maréchal, which was written shortly after the death of the earl in 1219 and contains an account of its defence in 1208 by his wife Isabel de Clare from a siege by a coalition of his Leinster vassals and Meiler fitz Henry (Holden et al. 2004, vol.2, 13528-13550, 13820-4). Isabel is said to have defended the castle from its 'battlements', perhaps an indication that a masonry castle was in place by this time. The Histoire also includes a reference to the earl describing to King John the arrival of William de Briouze to the ‘walls of my castle’ at Kilkenny earlier in 1210, another possible reference to a stone castle (Holden et al. 2004, 14296). There are occasional written allusions to individual buildings in the 13th and early 14th century, for example an exchequer is mentioned in 1269 (Sweetman 1877, no. 861), and a prison in 1305, 1308 and 1325 (Sweetman 1877, no. 384; Williams 2007, 52-3, 171n), but the first description of the castle to contain information on its overall plan is the 1307 extent of the estate of Joan countess of Gloucester and Hertford: ‘….the said Joan held in the vill of Kilkenny on the day of her death a castle in which there are a hall, four towers, a chapel, a moat [mota], and other divers houses necessary to the castle, wherefrom nothing can be received a year … there are in that vill 5 ½ acres of lands of demesne, whereof they extend each acre at 12 d. per year; there are also 5 ½ acres of meadow under the castle, which they extend at 20s. per year; and 7 acres of meadow near le Gibbethule, which they extend at 14s. a year, to wit. 2s. each acre; there are also 5 acres of pasture lying in portions, which they extend at 5s. a year. Total 44s. 6d. … There is a garden under the castle, the fruit with the herbage of which they extend at 6s. 8d. a year.’ (Sweetman 1886, no. 653). The description in the 1307 extent of the original masonry castle as having had ‘four towers’ has been central to all prior interpretations of its plan as a quadrilateral enclosure with corner towers. Various four-sided castle plans have been suggested heretofore, including wedge, square, rectangular, quadrangular and trapezium layouts, and the most recent interpretation by Ben Murtagh has suggested it was of pentagonal plan (Murtagh 2018, 259, 261, fig. 7). Ben Murtagh's comprehensive study of the Inner Ward of the standing castle, and his archaeological excavations at the site, have revealed a great deal of information about the plan and architecture of the original masonry castle attributed to the elder William Marshal. Surviving standing remains include intermittent stretches of curtain wall between three of the original circular towers, at the NW, SW and SE angles, as well as defensive plunging arrow loops and their round-headed embrasures (Murtagh 1993, 1110-1; 2017, 173-7; 2018, 257-64). Sub-surface structural remains relating to this phase of the castle have also been revealed in excavations, including stretches of curtain wall which had been constructed along the ridge of the rampart for the earlier earth-and-timber castle, two sally-ports, garderobe chutes and medieval floor levels (Murtagh 2018, 291-5). Inside (to the W) of the demolished E curtain wall excavation showed that the ground level was raised by c. 2m above the natural glacial substratum to c. 56.2m OD probably during construction of the Marshal castle by spreading out the redeposited glacial clay of the truncated ramparts of the earlier earth-and-timber castle (E627 and 99E481: Cuttings 19, 25, 26, 27). Portions of the substantial stone-lined moat that surrounded the castle have been revealed on the S and W sides of the castle. There may not have been a moat on the N, with instead the steep escarpment to the River Nore acting as a 'natural moat'. Excavations by Patrick Neary outside, SW, of the SE tower on The Parade revealed two sections of the curving top of the counterscarp of the S castle moat revetted with a sloping stone wall (top 55.33m OD) at a distance of 10.15m out from the tower (Neary 2010, figure 20, plates 21-4). Ben Murtagh’s excavation (E627:Cutting 16) of the same section of moat, in the angle of the SE tower and the S curtain wall, reached a depth of c. 4.6m (c. 50.7m OD) below the level of the top of the excavated counterscarp (c. 5.5m below present ground level) but the base was apparently not reached (Murtagh 2018, 293, figure 6). The inner (N) edge of the fosse was also revetted by a substantial base-batter which supported the curtain wall above and incorporated a sally-port and garderobe chute outlet. Excavation of the moat in the Rose Garden, outside the W wing, (E627: cutting 10), also revealed a 5.5m thick base-batter incorporating a sally-port (Murtagh 1993, 1111, figure 3). At this location, the bottom of the fosse was revealed at a depth of 6.5m (48.75m OD) below present ground level, i.e. c. 2m below the base as revealed outside the SW curtain. The width of the moat on this side of the castle is unknown. The missing fourth (E) wing of the castle, which was demolished in the late 18th-century, originally housed the main gate-building of the castle. Archaeological excavations (15E590)

• KK019-026079 Bowling green
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK019-026206 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Worked oak timbers from a horizontal mill, including those from a wooden trough and the floor from a dam, were discovered during construction in 1861 of a reservoir 760m SE of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) (Robertson 1861, 347-8; Lucas 1953, 6-7). The mill was powered by a spring, known in the 19th century, as 'the Seven Springs'. The trough was subsequently dated by dendrochronology to the 8th century and it can therefore probably be associated with the early medieval ecclesiastical settlement (KK019-026098-) of Domhnach Mór (St Patrick's) 790m to the W. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 13 November 2020

• KK019-026219 Stable
  Description

  Outside of the outer ward defences to the E of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-), a large mid-17th century stable and grain stand identified in a 2010 geophysical survey (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The 1654-6 Civil Survey records a large stable and a hay stand in a yard outside the 'outergate' of the castle: 'The greate Stable being a dubble building devided into two parts ye back part all in one in wch are Beames laid to make Lofts wch if repaired would hold 2000 barells of wheat (96 feet [c. 29m] x 38 feet [c. 11.6m]). Belonging to ye aforesaid Castle Is a plot of ground neere ye said Stable where ye Publique Store of hey was kept Cont 40 perches small Measure' (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 534-5). In 1719 moneys were assigned by Kilkenny Corporation 'for repairing the castle stables...' (Corporation Minutes 20.01.1719 (p. 114)). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisecoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026220 Fortification
  Description

  Outside the original main gatehouse of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-), a possible 17th-century fortification was identified in a 2010 geophysical survey of the parkland to E of the castle (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The 1654-6 Civil Survey records a masonry-built 'Mount' outside the main castle gatehouse, 'Wth out ye gate a Mount all built wth stone (32 feet [c. 10m] x 30 feet [c. 9m])' (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 534-5). This may have been some form of Confederate-era bastion that defended the E approach to the castle. A rubble spread and possible structural remains identified in the geophysical survey 45m outside, E of, the castle gatehouse may represent its sub-surface remains (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026221 Walled garden
  Description

  Medieval walled garden associated with the Shirehall Castle (KK019-026222-) located c.180m SE of the SE wing of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) and identified in a 2010 geophysical survey of the parkland to E of the castle (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). A castle in the Outer Ward known as the 'Shirehall garden' is referred to in 15th century documents. The shire hall was one of the castle’s administrative buildings and was used by the sheriff and for the seignorial assizes (Mills 1957, unpublished). The Kilkenny shirehall can be placed, on the basis of a 1435 grant to William Boyd, in the area to the E of the main castle, and probably in the Outer Ward, which was also the usual location for the castle shire hall: 'Indenture made on the 22nd day of April in the 13th year of Henry VI witnesses that James, Earl of Ormond, has granted to William Boyd of Kilkenny all his land outside "le Shirehall-gardyne," from the gate of same garden by measures and bounds between that garden and the garden of said William and the water of the Nore in length, and between the wall of the Earl’s garden and the common road by which you go from said William’s messuage to the Earl’s castle. To have and to hold for the term of twenty years, rendering yearly therefor twelve pence silver. And said William and his heirs shall build on the land aforesaid and return it at the end of the term to the Earl or his heirs "styf and stanche" (Curtis 1935, vol. 3, no. 124, 114). In 1435 the custody of the 'castle called ' le Shirhall gardeyne’' was granted by James, earl of Ormond to Walter Glerne (ibid., no. 125, 114). In 1449 the 'Shirehall gardyne' is again referred to: 'Indenture between James, Earl of Ormonde and Walter Glerne ‘gentilman’ in which he grants to Walter ‘the two messuages near Kilkenny and ‘le Shirehall gardyne’ there in which John Mesioun and Thomas McRebir lately dwelt’ (ibid., no. 172, 165-6). The Shirehall castle can also probably be correlated with the 'little Castle wth out outergate' referred to in the 1654-6 Civil Survey (Simington 1942, vol. 6, 534-5). It may also be the castle that is marked on the Down Survey county map and on the barony of Kilkenny liberties and Parish of St Patrick and Canice maps as being located outside (E of) the castle and Town Wall and directly S of the Ormonde mills, which would place it somewhere in the parkland to the E of the castle. The maps show it in the townland of ‘Danceing Meadow and other Small Inclosyers’, which is denoted as commonage in the parish terrier. The castle was probably cleared along with the rest of the outer ward at the time of the first Duke of Ormonde's remodelling of the castle (Bradley 2006, 107). By 1750 the name of the townland had changed to its current denomination, Dukesmeadows. The 2010 geophysical survey identified what is probably the Shirehall castle and an adjoining large enclosed garden that probably gave it the name the 'Shirehall garden', situated between the possible barbican gate (KK019-026216-) and the road to the Castle Mills to its E. The castle can be identified in the geophysics with a rectangular masonry structure (dims. 13m x 11m) and an adjoining rubble spread situated 160m E of the main gatehouse of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-). Situated directly to its E the survey identified a rectangular walled enclosure (dims 66m E-W x 56m N-S) adjoining the N side of the 'Common Road' (KK019-026218-). The N and E sides of the enclosure appear to be defined by very thick 4-6m wide walls, which might suggest they were truncated to the level of their base-batters. Inside the enclosure the geophysics identified garden soils and what may be a formal garden layout with a central path and yard surface. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026222 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Probable location of the Shirehall Castle, a medieval masonry castle identified in a 2010 geophysical survey of the parkland to E of Kilkenny Castle (Gimson 2010; Ó Drisceoil 2020). A castle known as the 'Shirehall garden' in the Outer Ward is referred to in 15th century documents. The shire hall was one of the castle’s administrative buildings and was used by the sheriff and for the seignorial assizes (Mills 1957). The Kilkenny shirehall can be placed, on the basis of a 1435 grant to William Boyd, in the area to the E of the main castle, and probably in the Outer Ward, which was also the usual location for the castle shire hall: 'Indenture made on the 22nd day of April in the 13th year of Henry VI witnesses that ‘James, Earl of Ormond, has granted to William Boyd of Kilkenny all his land outside “ le Shirehall-gardyne,” from the gate of same garden by measures and bounds between that garden and the garden of said William and the water of the Nore in length, and between the wall of the Earl’s garden and the common road by which you go from said William’s messuage to the Earl’s castle. To have and to hold for the term of twenty years, rendering yearly therefor twelve pence silver. And said William and his heirs shall build on the land aforesaid and return it at the end of the term to the Earl or his heirs “styf and stanche”’ (Curtis 1935, vol. 3, no. 124, 114). In 1435 the custody of the 'castle called 'le Shirhall gardeyne’' was granted by James, earl of Ormond to Walter Glerne (ibid., no. 125, 114). In 1449 the 'Shirehall gardyne' is again referred to: 'Indenture between James, Earl of Ormonde and Walter Glerne ‘gentilman’ in which he grants to Walter ‘the two messuages near Kilkenny and ‘le Shirehall gardyne’ there in which John Mesioun and Thomas McRebir lately dwelt’ (ibid., no. 172, 165-6). The Shirehall castle can also probably be correlated with the 'little Castle wth out outergate' referred to in the 1654-6 Civil Survey (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 534-5). It may also be the castle that is marked on the Down Survey county map and on the barony of Kilkenny liberties and Parish of St Patrick and Canice maps as being located outside (E of) the castle and Town Wall and directly S of the Ormonde mills, which would place it somewhere in the parkland to the E of the castle. The maps show it in the townland of ‘Danceing Meadow and other Small Inclosyers’, which is denoted as commonage in the parish terrier. The castle was probably cleared along with the rest of the outer ward at the time of the first Duke of Ormonde's remodelling of the castle (Bradley 2006, 107). By 1750 the name of the townland had changed to its current denomination, Dukesmeadows. The geophysical survey identified what may be the Shirehall castle and an adjoining large enclosed garden that probably gave it the name the 'Shirehall garden', situated between the possible barbican gate and the road to the Castle Mills to its E. The castle can be identified with a rectangular masonry structure (13m x 11m) and an adjoining rubble spread situated 160m E of the main gatehouse of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-). Situated directly to its E the survey identified a rectangular walled enclosure (66m E-W x 56m N-S) adjoining the N side of the 'Common Road' (KK019-026218-). The N and E sides of the enclosure appear to be defined by very thick 4-6m wide walls, which might suggest they were truncated to the level of their base-batters. Inside the enclosure the geophysics identified garden soils and what may be a formal garden layout with a central path and yard surface. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026223 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Located 365m E of the SE wing of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-). A N-S aligned hollow-way, part of the medieval suburb of Flemingstown identified in a LiDAR survey of the parkland to the E of the castle (Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The hollow-way runs through a large, L-Shaped enclosure (KK019-026224) that could relate to a former enclosing rampart around the suburban settlement. The hollow-way probably gave access the Castle Mill (KK019-027----) to the N. According to Hogan and Egan the Flemingstown originated as a suburban settlement for Flemish colonists that were settled in their own suburb to the E of the castle (Hogan 1884, 202-3; see Kilkenny Moderator 7.7.1849; Egan 1884, 22-3; O'Kelly 1985, 186). However, the earliest written record of the settlement, a grant of a messuage in the 'Villa Flemang', does not occur until 1339 (Curtis 1932, vol.1, no. 722, 306). Further property grants are recorded in 1350 and 1366 (Curtis 1932, vol. 1, no. 847, 356; Curtis 1934, vol. 2, no. 119, 93). An early 15th century extent of the baronies of Kilkenny in the Ormonde Deeds records that the 'Flemyngeston' occupied an area of 11 acres (Curtis 1942, vol. 2, no. 440, 351). It appears to have been largely deserted by 1413, when according to Prim, the suburban dwellers were transplanted to the manor of Dunfert (Danesfort) by the earl of Ormonde (Prim 1849, 39; Hogan 1883, 203). In Corporation rentals it is referred to as the ‘Fleming’s towne’ in 1391 and ‘Flemynstown’ and ‘Flemyn's-street’ in 1448 (Prim 1849, 38; Hogan 1884, 396). In 1628 a garden in 'Mill Street' was granted by James Archer and this is probably the street that gave access to the Castle Mills (Ledwich 1804, 457). The 'Ffleming streete' was still in existence in 1654 when it is referenced twice in the Civil Survey's description of St Patrick's parish, Kilkenny (Simington 1942, vol. 6, 553). David Rothe, writing in about 1625, described the Flemingstown as having been ‘in the neighbourhood of the castle’ with paved streets, property plots and a 'marble gate': ‘Those two peoples, viz. the Irish and English, having effected a settlement in the place, there came as it were a third colony, consisting, as it appears, of Flemish tradesmen and mechanics, especially fullers, bakers and brewers, and those employed in the linen and woollen manufactures. Invited hither by the earlier citizens and inhabitants, they erected for themselves, on their arrival, a strongly fortified place of residence, in the neighbourhood of the castle, in order to be free from the attacks of plunderers and robbers ; and this locality, which they occupied, was from them called Flemings' Town or Flemish Town, as appears from many ancient charters and instruments. From these three peoples merged into one by the infusion and mixture of blood, by intermarriage, and the begetting of children between parents of different nationalities (which are the pledge and bond of lasting union), have sprung the inhabitants of the present day. The villa or street, however, which is named from its Flemish occupants, now bears an empty title, having become quite deserted. And when, within our own memory, the inhabitants had been transferred thence (having been removed to the interior of the rampart and enclosing walls of the castle, or elsewhere, for instance, to Danesfort, three miles from Kilkenny, to serve as tillers of the soil), the marble gate of the town, leading to that highway, on the rising ground opposite the three water mills, which belong to the lord of the castle, was taken down, and the material used in the erection of another gate still remaining, on the bank or edge of the river [Nore], almost midway between Green's Bridge and St. John's Bridge …. From the stone pavements and other indications there, we may gather how extensive those suburbs were, though now split up and intersected with dykes and ditches as a protection for the corn and vegetable crops. And though I have said that the Flemings abandoned their place of abode in the city and devoted themselves to agricultural pursuits …’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 4-5). The gatehouse in the suburb’s town wall that was noted by David Rothe was, according to John Prim, removed from its original location at Switzer’s Asylum to the ‘New Quay’ in c. 1803-4 (Prim 1849, 40). The 'New Quay' is located on the north side of the present Market Yard off Parliament Street on Rocque's map. The gate is not marked on the first edition manuscript town plan (1840) and no trace of it is extant today. In 1663 some of the settlement's burgages were noted by Sir William Flower in a letter to the duchess of Ormond: ‘There are some twelve acres of land lying betwixt Ormond’s Leix [i.e. leys] and the road leading up to the marble quarry, anciently belonging to several burgesses, whereout his Grace hath a chiefry, which is very convenoient for his Grace’s use; we humbly desire to know whether we may take a lease of it or leave it to be determined as other chiefries will be belonging to this city; one Tarr is present tenant under Captain Burrell’ (Falkiner 1904, vol. 3, 49). Gaining the land facilitated the laying out of the area to the east of the castle as demesne parklandd. A second, and unrelated, influx of Flemings to Kilkenny occurred in the 16th century when Piers, the 8th earl of Ormonde, procured '500 Walloon protestant families about Canterbury to remove thence into Ireland' (Carte 1736, vol. 2, 342). Whilst it is possible some of these immigrants were housed in the old Flemingstown, it seems more likely that they would have been placed in the Hightown of Kilkenny. LiDAR survey of the area has facilitated the identification of low-level earthworks that can be associated with the former Flemingstown (Ó Drisceoil 2020). The earthworks include a N-S running hollow way with what appear to be burgage plots running off its W side. The hollow way runs through a large, L-Shaped enclosure (KK019-026224) (c. 200m NS x 210m EW), that could relate to a former enclosing rampart around the suburban settlement. Alternatively, it could be a post-medieval designed landscape feature. If the property plots do relate to the former Flemingstown, as appears likely to have been the case, the suburb would have occupied an area in the order of 10 hectares N-S, roughly between the Switzer's Asylum/Bennetsbridge road and the Ormonde Woollen Mills and E-W between the Mill Street to the E and the E side of the current Castle Park, perhaps defined by the Kilkenny borough boundary. A realignment of the Bennetsbridge road (formerly ‘Archers Street’) undertaken c. 2000 would have cut through the southern part of the suburb but it was carried out without any archaeological intervention. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026224 Enclosure
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  Located c. 365m E of the SE wing of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-). A large, L-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 200m N-S x 210m E-W), probably part of the medieval suburb of Flemingstown identified in a 2010 LiDAR survey of the parkland (Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The N-S aligned hollow-way (KK019-026223-) runs through the enclosure. According to John Hogan and John Egan the Flemingstown originated as a suburban settlement for Flemish colonists that were settled in their own suburb to the E of the castle (Hogan 1884, 202-3; see Kilkenny Moderator 7.7.1849; Egan 1884, 22-3; O'Kelly 1985, 186). However, the earliest written record of the settlement, a grant of a messuage in the 'Villa Flemang', does not occur until 1339 (Curtis 1932 vol.1, no. 722, 306). Further property grants are recorded in 1350 and 1366 (Curtis 1932 vol. 1, no. 847, 356; Curtis 1934, vol. 2, no. 119, 93). An early 15th century extent of the baronies of Kilkenny in the Ormonde Deeds records that the 'Flemyngeston' occupied an area of 11 acres (Curtis 1934 vol. 2, no. 440, 351). It appears to have been largely deserted by 1413, when according to Prim, the suburban dwellers were transplanted to the manor of Dunfert (Danesfort) by the earl of Ormonde (Prim 1849, 39; Hogan 1884, 203). In Corporation rentals it is referred to as the ‘Fleming’s towne’ in 1391 and ‘Flemynstown’ and ‘Flemyn's-street’ in 1448 (Prim 1849, 38; Hogan 1884, 396). In 1628 a garden in 'Mill Street' was granted by James Archer and this is probably the street that gave access to the Castle Mills (Ledwich 1804, 457). The 'Ffleming streete' was still in existence in 1654 when it is referenced twice in the Civil Survey's description of St Patrick's parish, Kilkenny (Simington 1942, vol. 6, 553). David Rothe, writing in about 1625, described the Flemingstown as having been ‘in the neighbourhood of the castle’ with paved streets, property plots and a 'marble gate': ‘Those two peoples, viz. the Irish and English, having effected a settlement in the place, there came as it were a third colony, consisting, as it appears, of Flemish tradesmen and mechanics, especially fullers, bakers and brewers, and those employed in the linen and woollen manufactures. Invited hither by the earlier citizens and inhabitants, they erected for themselves, on their arrival, a strongly fortified place of residence, in the neighbourhood of the castle, in order to be free from the attacks of plunderers and robbers; and this locality, which they occupied, was from them called Flemings' Town or Flemish Town, as appears from many ancient charters and instruments. From these three peoples merged into one by the infusion and mixture of blood, by intermarriage, and the begetting of children between parents of different nationalities (which are the pledge and bond of lasting union), have sprung the inhabitants of the present day. The villa or street, however, which is named from its Flemish occupants, now bears an empty title, having become quite deserted. And when, within our own memory, the inhabitants had been transferred thence (having been removed to the interior of the rampart and enclosing walls of the castle, or elsewhere, for instance, to Danesfort, three miles from Kilkenny, to serve as tillers of the soil), the marble gate of the town, leading to that highway, on the rising ground opposite the three water mills, which belong to the lord of the castle, was taken down, and the material used in the erection of another gate still remaining, on the bank or edge of the river [Nore], almost midway between Green's Bridge and St. John's Bridge …. From the stone pavements and other indications there, we may gather how extensive those suburbs were, though now split up and intersected with dykes and ditches as a protection for the corn and vegetable crops. And though I have said that the Flemings abandoned their place of abode in the city and devoted themselves to agricultural pursuits …’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 4-5). The gatehouse in the suburb’s town wall that was noted by David Rothe was, according to John Prim, removed from its original location at Switzer’s Asylum to the ‘New Quay’ in c. 1803-4 (Prim 1849, 40). The 'New Quay' is located on the north side of the present Market Yard off Parliament Street on Rocque's map. The gate is not marked on the first edition manuscript town plan (1840) and no trace of it is extant today. In 1663 some of the settlement's burgages were noted by Sir William Flower in a letter to the duchess of Ormond: ‘There are some twelve acres of land lying betwixt Ormond’s Leix [i.e. leys] and the road leading up to the marble quarry, anciently belonging to several burgesses, whereout his Grace hath a chiefry, which is very convenoient for his Grace’s use; we humbly desire to know whether we may take a lease of it or leave it to be determined as other chiefries will be belonging to this city; one Tarr is present tenant under Captain Burrell’ (Falkiner 1904, vol 3, 49). Gaining the land facilitated the laying out of the area to the east of the castle as demesne parkland. A second, and unrelated, influx of Flemings to Kilkenny occurred in the 16th century when Piers, the 8th earl of Ormonde, procured '500 Walloon protestant families about Canterbury to remove thence into Ireland' (Carte 1736, vol. 2, 342). Whilst it is possible some of these immigrants were housed in the old Flemingstown, it seems more likely that they would have been placed in the Hightown of Kilkenny. The LiDAR survey identifies low-level earthworks that can be associated with the former Flemingstown (Ó Drisceoil 2020). The earthworks include a N-S running hollow-way (KK019-026223-) with what appear to be burgage plots running off its W side. The hollow-way runs through a large, L-shaped enclosure (KK019-026224) (c. 200m N-S x 210m E-W), that could relate to a former enclosing rampart around the suburban settlement. Alternatively, it could be a post-medieval designed landscape feature. If the property plots do relate to the former Flemingstown, as appears likely to have been the case, the suburb would have occupied an area in the order of 10 hectares NS, roughly between the Switzer's Asylum/Bennetsbridge road and the Ormonde Woollen Mills and EW between the Mill Street to the E and the E side of the current Castle Park, perhaps defined by the Kilkenny borough boundary. A realignment of the Bennetsbridge road (formerly ‘Archers Street’) undertaken c. 2000 would have cut through the southern part of the suburb but it was carried out without any archaeological intervention. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026225 Designed landscape - summer house
  Description

  Located c. 70m NE of the NE wing of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) in an area presently under woodland. In 1680 the first Duke of Ormond had an elaborate waterhouse and banqueting hall constructed adjoining the bowling green (KK019-026079-) of the castle. It had been removed by the time of Rocque's 1758 survey. Dineley, writing in 1681 described it as follows: ‘…Bowling green, Gardens Walks Orchards & a delightfull Waterhouse adjoining to the B Green, which with an Engine of curious artifice by the help of one horse furnisheth all the Offices of the Castle with that necessary Element. This Waterhouse hath a pleasant summer banquetting room, floor’d and lin’d with white & black marble which abounds here, with a painted skye roof wth Angells, in this is seen a fountaine of black marble in the shape of a large cup, with a ject d’eau or throw of water in the middle ariseing, mounts into the hollow of a Ducall Crown, which but hangs over it, and descends again at severall droping places round this I have touch’d off on the other side the following leaf’ (Dineley 1681, 202; see Costello 2016, 146-7). The manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormond record that construction of the waterhouse included the following, 'On Monday and Tuesday next the marble piers by the grotto will be got up, which could not be carried through the bowling green until the dry weather came in. I believe the like were not seen in this kingdom heretofore' (Falkiner 1908, vol. 5, 292). The waterhouse is clearly depicted as an elaborate circular turret topped off with a statue on a 1681 view by Thomas Dineley and on the 1699 Francis Place and 1708 Henry Pratt views. (Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-026233 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  According to the Annals of Tigernach, in 1173 the 'foreigners' in the 'castle [caislen] of Kilkenny' were attacked by the combined armies of Domhnall Ó Briain, the king of north Munster, and Conchobhar Ua Conchobair, the son of the 'king of Ireland' Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Annals of Tigernach T1173.10). The castle was abandoned and 'the town was breached after the Foreigners left it, and the whole district was plundered. That reduction was a grief to the Foreigners of Ireland'. Orpen identified the 'castle of Kilkenny' that was the attacked as probably a motte in the area of the present Kilkenny Castle (Orpen 1909, 316-7; 1911, vol. 1, 332, 376-7). After Strongbow's death in 1176 the lordship of Leinster, including whatever settlement then existed at Kilkenny, was placed into royal custody, pending the marriage or majority of his heiress Isabel de Clare (Orpen 1911, vol. 2, 5). Nothing is recorded about the castle, or adjoining borough, between c. 1175 and 1192, which might, as Adrian Empey has suggested, imply they had been abandoned, but this is far from certain (Empey 2017, 64). Mac Gilla Pátraic dominance in the area, and in most of central Ossory, continued until around 1190, when William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, who had married Isabel de Clare in 1189, eventually gained seisin from a reluctant King John of his wife’s inheritance in Leinster (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 47; Bradley and Murtagh 2017, 217). This broadly coincides with the statement, as recorded by James Ware in his ‘Annals’, that in 1192 ‘in Leinster the castle of Kilkenny was built and another at Kilfeacle in Munster’ (Ware 1705, 33). At Kilkenny Castle the earliest phase of settlement uncovered thus far in excavations is a ‘sod building’ with contemporary metalworking activity, that was excavated by Ben Murtagh in 1992-3 beneath the central, W, wing of the castle (E627, Cutting 1e) (Murtagh 1993, 1108; 2018, 293). Sherds of ‘local cooking ware’ pottery from in and around the ‘sod building’ have been compared with Leinster Cooking Ware pottery, which based on current dating of the pottery type, would place the structure and its associated metalworking horizon no earlier than the late 12th century and therefore probably belonging to the early Anglo-Norman occupation of the site (Murtagh 1993, 1114; Ó Flóinn 1988; Bradley 2000a, 1; McCutcheon 2006, 36). As no close identification of the pottery has yet been published and no scientific dating of the structure has been undertaken, its precise chronology remains poorly understood. It is possible that the pottery in question is the same 10th-12th-century coarse cooking ware pottery that has been found in the Hiberno-Norse towns of Waterford, Wexford and Cork, although to date none of the excavated early medieval sites in and around Kilkenny have produced this particular ware (McCutcheon and Meenan 2011, 95-6). The 'sod building' was sealed beneath an earthwork rampart of an earth-and-timber castle that preceded the masonry castle built by William Marshal in the early 13th century. Sections of this rampart and fosse have been uncovered in excavations at a number of locations within the S half of the Inner Ward of Kilkenny Castle (Murtagh 1993, 1108-10; 2017, 173; 2018, 292-3). Where it survived most intact, under the W wing (E627:Cutting 1), the rampart stood to a height of 3m above the old ground level and was c. 7m wide (as excavated), comprising of layers of redeposited boulder clay derived, presumably, from the digging of the surrounding fosse (Murtagh 1993, 1108-10, fig. 3). Determining the physical form of the original castle enclosure is complicated by its possible recutting when the masonry castle was subsequently constructed and because of the limited amount of excavation undertaken, particularly on its N half. The excavations have determined that the masonry castle followed the same general layout as the earth-and-timber castle, and this is demonstrably the case for the S half of the castle (Murtagh 1993, 1108, 1111; Murtagh 2017, 177, fig. 5.40; see Bradley 2000, 2). Whether the same applies to the N half of the castle, however, remains unclear. The earth-and-timber castle, as excavated, has been regarded by Ben Murtagh as ‘a ringwork, built by Earl Strongbow and burnt down in 1173’ or a ringwork castle that succeeded the original motte and bailey castle built by Strongbow (Murtagh 1993, 1108; 2017, 173; 2018, 292). An alternative scenario is that it represents the former bailey of the motte and bailey castle, which Orpen suggests may have been still standing on the site in the early 1300s (Orpen 1909, 316-7). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 April 2021

• KK019-026261 Well
  Description

  A drystone-walled well at the rear of an early 19th-century house at No.4 Rose Inn Street (NIAH 12000149), excavated by Simon Ó Faoláin (01E0466) (Ó Faoláin 2002, unpublished; 2004, 283). The well (int. diam. c.1.1m) was constructed of roughly dressed limestone blocks with occasional red bricks in the upper courses. A lead pipe had been inserted into the well and it was sealed by a raft of timber planks. No evidence for its dating was found. The upper two courses (c.0.5m) of the well were removed under archaeological supervision and the remainder of it is preserved under the concrete floor of an extension to No. 4 Rose Inn Street. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-027 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  On the S bank of the River Nore, c. 400m NE of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) and outside the city wall, in the townland of ‘Dancing Meadow’ which has become Dukesmeadow. The medieval Lacken Mills (KK019-028----) and Magdalen Mills (KK019-026076-) are located on the opposite/N bank and all the mills on this stretch of the Nore were sited to take advantage of the increased flow of the river as it exited a meander. Following the Anglo-Norman conquest, the crosslands at Dukesmeadows were annexed as seignorial demesne for Kilkenny Castle and a mill was constructed, probably by William Marshal, earl of Pembroke and lord of Leinster. A clause in his 1207 charter to Kilkenny contains the earliest historical notice of what is presumably the mill, 'I have granted to the burgesses that they may grind in my mills for a reasonable toll' (McNeill 1931, 73). In the Calendar Documents Ireland (1302-7), the mill is probably one of the six referred to as being 'in bad condition with many defects ...' in the 1307 extent of the possessions of Joan, Countess of Gloucester and Herford in the borough of Kilkenny (Sweetman and Handcock 1886, vol. 5, 187). In 1399 the third earl of Ormond granted to William Archer the profits of four mills, including probably the mill in question (Curtis 1934, vol. 2, no. 343; 242-3). The Archers reconstructed the mills and may also have constructed new mill buildings after 1432 (Doyle 1985, 156). The family held the mills until their properties were confiscated following the Cromwellian attack on Kilkenny in March 1650. A watermill is indicated here on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Liberties of the Citty of Kilkenny’ and the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘St Patricks Parish’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). According to the terrier accompanying the parish map, ‘In Dancing Meadow is a new stone mill’ and the proprietor in 1640 is listed as ‘Comon’ (ibid.). In the Civil Survey (1654-6) the mills, located, ‘Lying a quart[e]r of a mile from ye Citty Southward upon ye river Neor’, are described as, ‘Ormond Mills being 3 in number under one ruffe [roof] Whereof 2 are Corne Mills and ye other a Tucking Mill ye walls being stone and ye ruffe [roof] slates’ and the ‘Ten[an]ts when ye Towne was Taken’ is given as Thomas Archer (Simington 1942, vol. 6, 549). The mill complex is indicated on Rocque’s map (1758) as ‘Castle Mills’. The c. 1699 Francis Place view of Kilkenny provides the earliest view of the mill. It shows a single long one-storey building with a gable to the river and a mill race running below it. A lane, which is no longer extant, provided access to the mill from the south. What also appears to be the mill is depicted as a freestanding building on the c. 1700 Pratt view of Kilkenny. However, by the time it was mapped by John Rocque in 1758 it comprised a complex of two large long buildings and at least three wheel houses, one of which is shown using the 'New Canal', in reference to the Kilkenny Canal, construction of which had begun to the S of the mill the year previously (1757). Four mill wheels are depicted in total, the other three are using the mill race that diverted off of the river Nore. On the map it is called 'Castle Mills'. A lock gate, known as 'Scots Lock' (in reference to a later owner of the complex), and a bridge were built to the south of the mill. Thomas Mitchell's view of Kilkenny in c. 1760 shows the N side of one of the mills in operation, complete with mill wheel and weir on the Nore to the NW. In 1769 the mill was described as follows: 'Stone Mills now occupied by Kenny Scott Miller is at present much out of repair' (Kenealy 1970, 45). In 1783 John Butler of Kilkenny Castle leased to Mathias Scott 'millwright of Kilkenny City' the 'Ormond Mills' and 'Jenkins Mill ... for three lives at a yearly rent of £50'. Five years later Matthew Scott, 'Corn Merchant, Miller, of Ormond Mills' was named in Lucas's General Directory of Co. Kilkenny. In the same year the site is referred to as a corn mill (Finn's Leinster Journal 5.3.1788). The firm of Kenny, Scott and Co. significantly expanded production and some five hundred people were employed in the enterprise (Bassett 1884, 66). Cloth milling, focussing on the production of heavy woollen blankets, was the main produce of the mills at this time. George Holmes's painting shows the north gable of one of the mill buildings in c. 1799. Pigot's 1824 Directory names the mill as 'Ormond Mills' and it is also named as such on the 1st ed. (1839-40) OS map and subsequent editions (Bradley 2000, 16). On the 1840 first edition map a large complex of mill buildings is depicted forming the Ormonde Woollen Mills. In 1969, the mills and all their stock were destroyed in a large fire and the site was abanonded, becoming disused and overgrown (Bradley 2000, 16).In the 19th century the mills were to become the Ormonde Woollen Mills (Bradley 2000, 16; Doyle 1985, 152). The mills were destroyed by fire in 1969 but survive in a ruinous condition (ibid.). An industrial archaeological survey (Hamond 1990), describes the complex as 'a medieval mill site (destroyed above ground level) and an intact post-medieval/early modern water mill, with six surviving undershot mill wheels and three mill races'. An archaeological assessment (01E0551) of the River Nore banks and riverbed in 2000-2001 found medieval and later medieval material was noted at intermittent locations tested downstream of John’s Bridge, with a concentration around the Ormond/Maudlin Mills complex (Stevens 2003, 221-2). See attached: KK019-027----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Liberties of the Citty of Kilkenny’ KK019-027----_02 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘St Patricks Parish’ KK019-027----_03 Extract from the terrier accompanying the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘St Patricks Parish’ Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• KK019-109 Fulacht fia
  Description

  At the edge of the SW flood-plain of the River Nore, on a small ridge of natural boulder clay, enhanced to produce a flat platform. Two conjoined fulachta fia (KK019-109---- and KK019-110) were uncovered during archaeological monitoring for the Kilkenny Flood-Relief Scheme (Phelan licence no. 01E0821) and subsequently excavated by Stevens (licence no. 02E1237) in 2002 (Stevens 2004, 273-4). The following description is based on Stevens published summary and unpublished excavation report. The fulachta fiadh, where were dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, consisted of a single, irregular, sprawling, denuded burnt mound (L 20m N-S; Wth 12.5m; min. 0.42m), with four circular or ovoid troughs and a number of other, smaller, ephemeral features. Three lithic artefacts were also recovered, including a broken plano-convex knife of Antrim flint and two chert cores from the southern periphery of the burnt mound. Trough A (diam. 2.3m; D 0.75m), to the S, was a backfilled oval pit, partially lined with clay, at the SE end of the mound. It was circular with a U-shaped profile and straight or slightly concave slides and a concave base. Trough B1 (min. L 0.9m N-S; Wth 1.59m; D 0.35m) was a shallow ovoid or rectangular pit at the N end, possibly originally lined with wicker, as evidenced by an arc of stake-holes. This was cut and truncated to the S by Trough B2 (L 1.6m N-S; Wth 1.5m; D 0.95m), a larger, deeper, oval, flat-bottomed trough containing residues of partially shattered stone and charcoal. The trough was obviously open for some time and contained roots and straw from pondweed. Trough C (L 1.6m E-W; Wth 1.2m; D 0.56m) was S of the mound, close to Trough A. It consisted of an irregular oval-shaped pit, with U-shaped profile, steep straight sides and a flat base. It has a sandy silt deposit at the base, indicating that the trough was open for a time before being backfilled. Trough D (diam. 1.7m; D 0.39m) was a very shallow circular pit adjacent to Trough A and may have been a firing pit rather a trough. Analysis of the charcoal revealed that eight species, of largely young branches, were used across the site: alder, birch, hazel, ash, apple-type, elm, oak and yew. Two radiocarbon samples were submitted to Glasgow University. A 2-sigma date of cal. 1390-1010 BC (GU-10559) was produced from Trough A, and a 2-sigma date of cal. 1920-1630 BC (GU-10560) was obtained from Trough B1. These suggested that there were in fact two fulacht fia, one with an incutting trough complex that was left open for some time. Several hundred years later, a second fulacht fia immediately to the S was built, with two or three troughs. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 October 2020

• KK019-110 Fulacht fia
  Description

  At the edge of the SW flood-plain of the River Nore, on a small ridge of natural boulder clay, enhanced to produce a flat platform. Two conjoined fulachta fia (KK019-109---- and KK019-110) were uncovered during archaeological monitoring for the Kilkenny Flood-Relief Scheme (Phelan licence no. 01E0821) and subsequently excavated by Stevens (licence no. 02E1237) in 2002 (Stevens 2004, 273-4). The following description is based on Stevens published summary and unpublished excavation report. The fulachta fiadh, where were dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, consisted of a single, irregular, sprawling, denuded burnt mound (L 20m N-S; Wth 12.5m; min. 0.42m), with four circular or ovoid troughs and a number of other, smaller, ephemeral features. Three lithic artefacts were also recovered, including a broken plano-convex knife of Antrim flint and two chert cores from the southern periphery of the burnt mound. Trough A (diam. 2.3m; D 0.75m), to the S, was a backfilled oval pit, partially lined with clay, at the SE end of the mound. It was circular with a U-shaped profile and straight or slightly concave slides and a concave base. Trough B1 (min. L 0.9m N-S; Wth 1.59m; D 0.35m) was a shallow ovoid or rectangular pit at the N end, possibly originally lined with wicker, as evidenced by an arc of stake-holes. This was cut and truncated to the S by Trough B2 (L 1.6m N-S; Wth 1.5m; D 0.95m), a larger, deeper, oval, flat-bottomed trough containing residues of partially shattered stone and charcoal. The trough was obviously open for some time and contained roots and straw from pondweed. Trough C (L 1.6m E-W; Wth 1.2m; D 0.56m) was S of the mound, close to Trough A. It consisted of an irregular oval-shaped pit, with U-shaped profile, steep straight sides and a flat base. It has a sandy silt deposit at the base, indicating that the trough was open for a time before being backfilled. Trough D (diam. 1.7m; D 0.39m) was a very shallow circular pit adjacent to Trough A and may have been a firing pit rather a trough. Analysis of the charcoal revealed that eight species, of largely young branches, were used across the site: alder, birch, hazel, ash, apple-type, elm, oak and yew. Two radiocarbon samples were submitted to Glasgow University. A 2-sigma date of cal. 1390-1010 BC (GU-10559) was produced from Trough A, and a 2-sigma date of cal. 1920-1630 BC (GU-10560) was obtained from Trough B1. These suggested that there were in fact two fulacht fia, one with an incutting trough complex that was left open for some time. Several hundred years later, a second fulacht fia immediately to the S was built, with two or three troughs. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 October 2020

• KK019-111 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  On the S bank of the River Nore, c. 600m ENE of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078----) and c. 200m E of the Ormonde Mills (KK019-027----) complex. Known as the 'Archers Mills'. The medieval Lacken Mills (KK019-028----) and Magdalen Mills (KK019-026076-) are located on the opposite/N bank and all the mills on this stretch of the Nore were sited to take advantage of the increased flow of the river as it exited a meander. The Ormond Deeds record that in 1399 James, earl of Ormonde, granted to William Archer, carpenter, the use and profits of four mills in and near Kilkenny (Curtis 1934, vol. 2, no. 343, 242-3). These mills were to be repaired by Archer and remained in the possession of the family until the 17th century (Doyle 1985, 247). The terrier accompanying the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘St Patrick’s Parish’ mentions that there is, 'in Archersgrove a Thatcht House [KK019-080001-] and two mills in repaire' [KK019-050----] and lists 'Thomas Archer Ir[ish] P[apist]' as the proprietor in 1640 (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes the mills belonging to Thomas Archer as, 'being 3 in num[ber] [ ] distinct building [ ] wherein stands a corne ye [ ] walls stone ye ruffe p[ar]t Slate and p[ar]t Thatch. A Building joyning thereunto wherin stands a ruinous Tuck Mill) ye walls stone and ye ruffe Thatch. Another building (wherein stands a Corne mill) ye walls stone and ye ruffe thatch' (Simington 1942, vol. 6, 549). Though not indicated on the Down Survey maps, it is possible that the third mill may refer to one in Dukesmeadows, known as Archers Mills and later as Dullard's Mills (Bradley 2000, 16). In 2002, following excavations (licence no. 01E1041), these mill buildings, referred to locally as the 'Tuck Mill' and consisting of two ruinous but upstanding buildings of 18th/19th-century date, were removed to facilitate the widening of the River Nore as part of the OPW Kilkenny City Drainage Scheme (Doyle 2004, 247). In the course of the excavation the earliest building was identified by an E-W oriented wall, which partially cut into the silted-up river channel. Two N-S aligned walls ran off this latter wall at right angles. The walls were roughly built with limestone rubble and coarse limestone mortar (ibid.). This U-shaped structure had no northern wall or floor levels associated with it, presumably owing to their removal in later phases (ibid.). The excavator speculated that these may represent the remains of a 17th-century mill building (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 13 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• Gate lodge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay two-storey gate lodge, built 1845; dated 1849, on a square plan; two-bay single-storey return (east). Now disused. Roofs not visible behind parapets with cast-iron hopper and downpipes. Coursed or snecked tooled limestone walls with battlemented parapet on tooled cut-limestone beaded consoles having cut-limestone chamfered coping; coursed or snecked tooled limestone walls (east) with battlemented parapet on tooled cut-limestone beaded stringcourse having cut-limestone chamfered coping. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement, drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows behind iron mesh panels. Square-headed door opening (east), drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (east), drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows behind iron mesh panels. Square fronted.

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, c.1875, possibly originally two separate single-bay three-storey houses with pair of box oriel windows to first floor. Reroofed, c.1950. Part refenestrated, c.1975, to accommodate commercial use to ground floor. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (including to box oriel windows on panelled risers) with cut-limestone sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows having replacement fixed-pane timber windows, c.1975, to ground floor. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, one having cast-iron bootscraper, and timber panelled doors having overlights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1775, on a corner site with two-bay three-storey side (east) elevation, and single-bay three-storey return to south. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Renovated and part refenestrated with return subdivided to accommodate separate commercial use. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan (forming hip to corner) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with moulded rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills (on consoles to top floor), moulded rendered surrounds having consoles, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, having replacement uPVC casement windows to top floor. Pair of timber shopfronts, c.1900, to ground floor with pilasters having elongated consoles, fixed-pane (two-light) timber display windows having colonette mullions, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, fascia having decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Round-headed door opening to return with moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front, and sections of wrought iron railings along side (east) elevation on rendered plinth.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1750. Extensively renovated, 1920, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed and part refenestrated. Now in use as offices to upper floors. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack, and replacement iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Painted rendered walls with moulded rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with painted cut-stone sills (on consoles to top floor), fluted/reeded pilaster surrounds to first floor having consoles supporting entablatures, panelled pilaster surrounds to top floor supporting entablatures, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 1920, having replacement uPVC casement windows to top floor. Timber shopfront, 1920, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house on cut-limestone step having overlight, glazed fascia having brass lettering, decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with glazed tiling to walls (possibly over red brick construction) incorporating square-headed door opening with rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround having glazed timber panelled door, overlight, tongue-and-groove timber panelled compartmentalised ceiling, tongue-and-groove timber panelled stair compartment incorporating turned balustrade, and timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1750. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with rendered façade enrichments added. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. Roof not visible behind parapet with rendered chimney stack, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered façade enrichments, c.1900, including channelled piers to ends having vermiculated panels, stringcourse to top floor, moulded cornice supporting blocking course having swag motifs, and balustraded parapet with panelled plinths supporting finials. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, c.1900, having triangular pediments over to first floor on consoles with vermiculated tympanae, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, retaining three-over-three timber sash windows to top floor. Replacement stone-clad shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan retaining fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber panelled doors having overlights, and fascia having moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber door having overlight, timber panelled doors to house having overlights, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Replacement shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor with fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber door, and replacement timber fascia over. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Kilkenny Castle, house, 1825–1840 · National interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay three-, four- and five-storey castle, reconstructed 1826-37, on a U-shaped plan incorporating fabric of medieval castle, 1207-19, comprising nine-bay three-storey range to south-west with three-bay full-height pedimented breakfront, under construction 1709, single-bay four-stage flanking bastion to south-east on a circular plan (single-bay six-stage turret to courtyard elevation on a polygonal plan), single-bay five-stage bastion to north-west on a circular plan, and five-bay three-storey range to north-west (six-bay three-storey courtyard elevation having six-bay single-storey projecting range along ground floor) having single-bay three-storey advanced bay leading to single-bay four-stage bastion to north on a circular plan. Renovated, 1858-62, with eight-bay two-storey range to north-east reconstructed having canted oriel windows to first floor, and pair of single-bay single-stage corner turrets on octagonal plans. Restored, 1976-present. Now in use as museum. Pitched and hipped slate roofs behind parapets (gabled to pedimented breakfront; conical to bastions) with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks (some having grouped (three) polygonal flues), and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative hoppers and downpipes. Random rubble stone walls with sections of limestone ashlar construction (including to breakfront having full-height Corinthian pilasters flanking round-headed recessed niches with sills, moulded surrounds having keystones, decorative frieze having swags, moulded course, modillion cornice, and blocking course with moulded surround to pediment having modillions), and limestone ashlar dressings including battlemented parapets (some having inscribed details) on corbel tables. Square-headed window openings to range to south-west and to bastions with cut-limestone sills, chamfered surrounds, squared limestone voussoirs over forming segmental relieving arches, and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to range to north-west in bipartite arrangement (in Tudor-headed recesses to first floor; Tudor-headed window openings to projecting range in tripartite arrangement having pointed-arch lights with overlights) with cut-limestone sills, hood mouldings over, and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to range to north-east with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions and transoms, and timber casement windows. Pointed-arch openings to canted oriel windows with polygonal colonette mullions, and fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing. Square-headed carriageway to breakfront in round-headed opening with limestone ashlar piers having moulded necking supporting archivolt, keystone, and timber panelled doors having overpanel. Tudor-headed door opening to projecting range to north-west with moulded cut-limestone surround, glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers, and overlight. Interior including great hall having timber floor, and exposed glazed timber roof construction on timber brackets having carved cut-stone corbels. Road fronted with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site enclosing extensive landscaped grounds (including terraces to north-west having flights of cut-limestone steps with limestone ashlar parapets having moulded cut-limestone coping, and pond having cut-limestone surround on a pierced quatrefoil plan).

• Kilkenny Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, 1863, comprising pair of rusticated limestone ashlar piers on two cut-limestone steps with moulded cut-limestone capping supporting decorative iron lamp holder, iron double gates having cast-iron finials, sections of iron railings on cut-stone plinth having cast-iron finials, and gateway to north-west on four cut-limestone steps having rusticated limestone ashlar piers with moulded cut-limestone capping supporting decorative iron lamp holder. Set back from line of road.

• Fountain, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cut-limestone trough, erected 1902, on a corner site comprising carved basin with moulded lip on cut-limestone plinth having carved stoups. Set back from line of road on a corner site on concrete brick cobbled footpath.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay four-storey house, c.1825. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Renovated, pre-1977, with shopfront partly remodelled. Mostly refenestrated. Now in use as offices to upper floors. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining replacement one-over-one timber sash window, c.1900, to first floor. Shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with engaged Doric columns, replacement fixed-pane (two-light) timber display window, pre-1977, in remodelled opening, glazed timber door, replacement glazed timber panelled door, pre-1977, to house having overlight, and fascia having cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay four-storey house, c.1825. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled pier to end. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with engaged Doric columns, fixed-pane timber window, glazed timber door, timber panelled door to house having overlight, and fascia having dentilated cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1800, with series of segmental-headed openings to ground floor including carriageway to right. Part refenestrated, c.1900. Mostly refenestrated, c.1950. Renovated. Now in commercial use to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with exposed random rubble limestone wall to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, replacement one-over-one timber sash window, c.1900, to left first floor retaining three-over-six timber sash window to left top floor, and replacement steel casement windows, c.1950, to remainder. Series of three segmental-headed openings to ground floor (including carriageway to right) on cut-limestone piers with replacement fixed-pane timber display window, glazed timber door having sidelight, and iron double gates to carriageway (square-headed door opening behind carriageway with two cut-stone steps, and timber boarded double doors). Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Kilkenny Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of random rubble limestone boundary wall, c.1775, with lime mortar, square-headed pedestrian gateway (having limestone ashlar block-and-start surround incorporating keystone, and timber panelled door), square-headed pedestrian gateway in elliptical-headed recess (possibly originally carriageway having rusticated limestone ashlar piers supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, and cut-limestone lintel to gateway having tongue-and-groove timber panelled door), and outline of elliptical-headed carriageway having red brick voussoirs (now blocked-up with random rubble limestone infill). Road fronted enclosing grounds of Kilkenny Castle.

• Kilkenny Castle, graveyard/cemetery, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Private graveyard, established 1921, including cut-limestone Celtic High Cross-style monument, cut-stone marker, cut-limestone surrounds to burial plots having guilloche detailing, and sections of iron railings to enclosure on a square plan having iron double gates. Set back from road in grounds shared with Kilkenny Castle.

• Kilkenny Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1775, comprising pair of granite ashlar channelled piers with moulded capping having blocking course over, cast-iron open work inner piers having decorative panels, and iron double gates having cast-iron finials. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Kilkenny Castle.

• Ormonde Woollen Mills, mill (water), 1755–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Woollen Mill complex, pre-1758, incorporating fabric of earlier corn and tuck mill complex, pre-1654/5, including:(i) Detached three-bay two-storey range with half-attic. Reroofed, c.1950. Decommissioned, 1969. Now disused and derelict. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated asbestos, c.1950, concrete ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners, and sections of red brick irregular bond construction to upper floors. Square-headed window openings with fittings not visible. Square-headed door openings (including loading door to top floor side (east) elevation) with lintels, and fittings now missing. Set back from road on bank of River Nore with overgrown grounds to site.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2184 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Dukesmeadows with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Dukesmeadows · Móinéar an Diúic

Area

468,735 m² (46.87 ha, 115.83 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Kilkenny No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny No. 2 Urban electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,675 households; 51% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Archerstreet Lot, Collegepark, Gallowshill, Gardens, Gardens, Gardens, Lacken, Maudlinsland

Placenames

Dukesmeadows on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.