Gardens

249 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gardens, from 4 m² to 9,372 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 191 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 6 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 · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  (a) at No. 27: change of use from retail at ground floor with ancillary storage overhead to restaurant use as an extension of the existing Lanigans Bar & Restaurant at Nos. 28/29, including a new kitchen with internal extract duct terminating at roof level, internal alterations and fit-out works, and the conservation and presentation of the medieval window; (b) at No. 27: change of use of the existing terrace at second floor level to provide an external seating area; (c) at Nos. 28/29: material alterations to the existing bar premises, including a new stairs serving all levels and internal alterations and fit-out works; (d) formation of new opes in the party wall between No. 27 and Nos. 28/29 to link the two premises; and (e) all associated site development, conservation and ancillary works. No. 27 Rose Inn Street (RPS ref. B181) and Nos. 28/29 Rose Inn Street (RPS ref. B182) are Protected Structures.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660527

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  for repair works to the existing ground-floor shopfront only of the existing public house premises at 28 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, a protected structure (RPS B139). The proposed works include repairs to the existing shopfront, signage, glazing, doors, fascia, pilasters, stallrisers and existing awning box, together with making good to adjoining fabric and all associated site and ancillary works. The site is located within the Kilkenny City Centre Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660434

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  For the replacement of existing fixed glazing to the Rose Inn Street front elevation and to the rear elevation facing onto St Mary's Lane with new openable bifolding windows, the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to the roof and all associated and ancillary works. The works are to a Protected Structure (Kilkenny County Council Record of Protected Structures Ref. No. B182, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Reg. No. 12000134) which is located within the Kilkenny City Centre Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660412

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  for a change of use of an existing shop to restaurant and takeaway, internal alterations, external signage and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660405

• 20 May 2026N/a

  for the replacement of the existing ground-level shopfront only to the existing public house premises, including associated signage, glazing, doors, fascia, pilasters, stallrisers, awning provision, making good to adjoining fabric, and all associated site and ancillary works. The development is located within the Kilkenny City Centre Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660302

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  for development. The building is located within an ACA (City Centre ACA). The development will consist of the installation of 2no. digital screens at ground floor level along the southwest elevation. All screens will be located internally within the existing window display

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660286

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  sought for demolition of single storey rear detached youth service buildings, construction of three storey rear extension for youth activities and associated office use, alterations to existing Desart Hall building and ancillary related works at Desart Hall, Lower New Street. Applicant: Ossory Youth Services Ltd.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660245

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  to install/erect a self-service dog wash machine, and small shelter area over it

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660106

• 21 Feb 2026Conditional

  to retain indefinitely (1) the conversion of the rear yard to internal shop space (2) conversion of the attic space to first floor offices/storage and staff welfare facilities ancillary to the existing shop use (3) 5 no. rooflights and (4) all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660100

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  for refurbishing the existing property (a protected structure) to incorporate 6 No. Hotel Style Rooms in 77 High Street connected to No. 76 High Street at 1st and 2nd floor levels, to construct a setback 3rd floor level extension to No 77 High street, to provide a licenced cafe bar restaurant at ground and lower level of 77 High Street, to provide a further 2 No. hotel style rooms at 1st and 2nd floor levels of 41 Kieran Street and to covert the ground floor level of 41 Kieran Street from retail use to reception and retail

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560599

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  to complete works as were permitted and commenced under Planning Ref. 12/68 but were not completed before expiry of that permission in the grounds of St. Mary's Cathedral, James's Street & Blackmill Street, Kilkenny. The works to be completed and for which this permission is sought include the completion of new external steps from ground level to the basement level of the Chapter House Tea Rooms, completion of the extension of the Chapter House Tea Rooms external seating area, completion of the finishes to the roof of the basement kitchen to include an alteration to a limestone chip finish in lieu of paving, omission of steps to the roof of the basement kitchen, and completion of revised soft landscaping proposals. All works will take place in the grounds of St. Mary's Cathedral, James's Street & Blackmill Street, Kilkenny. St. Mary’s Cathedral and the adjacent Chapter House are Protected Structures and located within the St. Mary’s Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560572

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the 1) Retention of a 42 sq.m portacabin and access ramp within the service yard, to be used for online grocery order processing and storage (online pick room). 2) Permission to install new panel fencing above the service yard wall facing the Market Yard Car Park and Bateman Quay. 3) Retention of existing service access door onto Bateman Quay on a temporary basis. Permission is sought to create a new service access door to the Market Yard Car Park, with the Bateman Quay service access door to be removed and the opening infilled once the new access is in use. 4) Retention of a click and collect sign on the northern boundary wall, facing the Market Yard Car Park. 5) All associated and necessary site works required to complete the development for which retention and planning permission is sought

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560535

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  the following works 1) Permission to retain on a permanent basis alterations made to the existing premises under the exemptions provided for within the European Union (Planning and Development Displaced Persons from Ukraine Temporary Protection) Regulations 2022. 2). Permission for a change of use of the building from office use to Aparthotel and all associated site works. 42 Parliament Street is a Recorded Monument No. KK019-026092 and a protected structure (RPS Ref. B145) It is located in the City Centre Architectural Conservation Area and is listed on the NIAH Record (Reg No, 12000089).

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560452

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  for retention as built for - 1.External back lit signage to West Elevation and 2. External signage to Southwest Elevation and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560362

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  Refurbishment and change of use from existing permitted office space to 8 No. short-term let accommodation units at the Second Floor, Dalgan House, The Butterslip, Kilkenny. R95T3VX.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560276

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  for : (a) clearance works on a 0.034ha site including the demolition of an existing single storey building; (b) the construction of a four storey hostel with setback 4th-floor level and plantroom at roof level, comprising of a reception area, toilet facilities, 13 No. bedrooms with a mix of ensuites and off-suite facilities, communal kitchen/dining/living areas and staff facilities; (c) bicycle parking spaces; (d) communal open space (e) landscaping (f) drainage works and connection to services and (g) all associated site development works to facilitate the development. The proposed development site is located within the Patrick Street Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560258

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  for development, for the continuous use of previously permitted 103 temporary car parking spaces at the Desart Court car-park. The carparking spaces are for public use and operate with a barrier system

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560261

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the change of use from existing post office to a non-surgical medical walk-in-clinic and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560049

• 31 Jan 2025N/a

  for the change of use from existing post office to a non-surgical medical walk-in-clinic and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560040

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  for a commercial development. The development will consist of: 1 no. commercial unit on ground floor, 'Apparta-hostel' on ground, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. The development is adjacent to a "Protected Structure", St. Mary's Church.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 257

• 15 Jan 2025N/a

  for a commercial development. The development will consist of :- 1. No. Commercial unit on ground floor, 'Apparta-hostel' on ground, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. The development is adjacent to a listed building, St. Mary's Church.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 254

• 8 Jul 2024Refused

  for 1. The removal of an existing two storey side extension and external fire escape stairs and replacing it with a three-storey enclosed stairwell to the side of the existing four-bedroom, three storey dwelling, with 3 proposed storage sheds attached to the rear of the proposed extension. 2. Permission for the change of use of the three-storey dwelling to three individual single bed apartments and all associated site works at Wesley House, William Street, Kilkenny R95 PD88. This Property is adjacent to the Methodist Church a Protected Structure (RPS ref B207)

  Permission, 3 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2460320

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  for works to the “Dinners Ready” premises to include the provision of a takeaway service window with shopfront alterations and all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460286

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  for development at the corner of Pennyfeather Lane and Pudding Lane, Kilkenny. The proposed site is within the City Centre Architectural Conservation Area and NIAH Ref No. KK019-026212 is within the application site. The development will consist of: (a) clearance works on a 0.059ha site including the demolition of the existing restaurant building; (b) the construction of a six-storey hotel with setback 4th-floor level and plant room at the 5th-floor level, comprising 67no. ensuite bedrooms, hotel foyer/ reception, bar and restaurant facilities, staff facilities, and hotel service facilities; (c) vehicle set-down areas off Pudding Lane and Pennyfeather Lane; (d) 12 no. bicycle parking spaces; and (e) landscaping, drainage works; and all associated site development works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460278

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  TO CARRY OUT A CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING TO CAFE/DELICATESSEN STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO GROUND FLOOR

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460180

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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

• KK019-026 Historic town
  Description

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• KK019-026037 Architectural fragment
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• KK019-026038 Architectural fragment
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• KK019-026039 Almshouse
  Description

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• KK019-026045 Market-house
  Description

  Site of the 'old' tholsel, presently occupied by the Allied Irish Bank building (NIAH 12001017), which was itself converted, and probably originally extended, in 1921 from the early 19th-century Victoria Hotel establishment (Farrelly et al. 1993, 38-9; Bradley 2000, 15, 20). This tholsel, or Market House, is first referred to as a 'Stallage house' in the 1307 extent of the estate of the deceased Joan of Acre, Countess of Gloucester (Sweetman 1886, 187) and in 1383 it was the venue for the town hundred court (McNeill 1931, 67). A stone tholsel had been completed by 1507 and a 'great chamber' and stone gate were added to it before 1517 (McNeill 1931, 132, 138-9). A new tholsel was built in 1578 150m to its N on the E side of High Street, elements of which are incorporated into the present largely 18th-century tholsel building (KK019-026061-).The 'old Tholsel' continued to function under Corporation ownership for about a century and was eventually knocked c. 1795 (Hogan 1884, 270-4). John Rocque's 1758 survey of Kilkenny depicts it prior to its removal as part of a solid block of buildings between Pudding Lane and High Street. Rocque also shows the rear (W) plot of the old tholsel occupied by a building in the E and a walled garden/yard extending to a building range that flanks the town wall to the W. According to John Hogan a section of the old Tholsel was still visible in the back (W) wall of the Victoria Hotel in the late 19th century (Hogan 1880, 242). This, however, was demolished in 1921 when the present Allied Irish Bank building was erected. Elements of the basement level, which was utilised as the city gaol, of the old tholsel may be incorporated into the cellars below the present bank building (Hogan 1880, 242). Excavations in advance of construction of the current multi-storey carpark and leisure centre on Ormonde Street by Judith Carroll (97E0468; Areas 1, 3, 5) included the plot to the rear of the site of the old tholsel, which extended 130m W from Pudding Lane to the town wall (Carroll 2000, 121-3; 2002, unpublished). The excavation recorded a high density of medieval stone-lined and unlined pits, hearths, slot-trenches for earth-fast sill-beam structures, ditches and fence-lines for burgage plots that preceded the walled plot-lines depicted on Rocque's map (ibid.). Metalworking areas and dumps of metalworking waste in large pits were also recorded, much of it probably relating to the 'common forge' (KK019-026197-) of the medieval town which was probably located directly to the S of the old tholsel at Nos 1-2 High Street. Six human burials were also documented in the plot and they may be associated with the early 17th-century Hospital of Our Blessed Saviour (KK019-026046-) that was located directly to the N of the old tholsel. Substantial quantities of Kilkenny-type and Highhays Ware pottery of 13th/14th-century date and imports of Saintonge pottery, Ham Green B and Redcliffe were recovered, including a near-complete pot, cup and jug. Post-medieval features excavated within the plot included horticultural drainage slots, numerous pits and walls for out-buildings. Excavations ceased at the formation level of the present multi-storey carpark development and significant archaeological features thus remain in situ below this level. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026046 Almshouse
  Description

  Site of the Ormond almshouse at No. 4 High Street, known as the ‘Hospital of Our Blessed Saviour’, which was established by Royal Charter in May 1631 and remained here until the building was demolished in 1841 (Farrelly et al. 1993, 40; Bradley 2000, 26). In 1783, the 'Poorhouse called a “hospital”' was repaired and it held at this time eight widows with their families ((Bradley 2000, 26). In c. 1839 its residents were transferred to the Ormonde Almshouse on Barrack Street and the building was subsequently demolished in 1841 (Hogan 1884, 270). The site is currently occupied by the N side of the Allied Irish Bank building. Fabric belonging to the almshouse may survive within the basement level of the bank building. Excavations carried out in advance of construction of the present multi-storey carpark and leisure centre on the N side of Ormonde Street by Judith Carroll (97E0468; Areas 1, 3, 5) included the plot to the rear of the site of the almshouse, which extended 130m W from Pudding Lane to the town wall (Carroll 2000, 121-3; 2002, unpublished). The precise limits of the property plot for the almshouse are unclear but are probably represented by the northernmost boundary to Kellys Lane shown on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. Within this area the excavations uncovered six human skeletal burials. Two of the burials were excavated on the E side of the plot, 30m to the west of the site of the almshouse and the other four were located 130m from the almshouse at the rear of the plot. The pair closest to the almshouse were orientated E-W, with their heads to the W, whilst three of those to the rear of the plot were orientated N-S and one E-W. The disarticulated partial remains of an adult female were also recovered from a nearby post-medieval pit. Whilst the date of these burials was not established it is likely they were burials associated with the use of the nearby hospital/almshouse. Extensive pitting, gullies and slots for earth-fast sill-beam structures were also identified within the excavated portion of the plot. Excavations ceased at the formation level of the present multi-storey carpark development and significant archaeological features thus remain in situ below this level. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026047 Prison
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• KK019-026048 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026049 House - 16th century
  Description

  Occupying nos. 17-19 High Street, Kilkenny, within the walls of the Hightown of Kilkenny and on the chief thoroughfare of the Anglo-Norman town, 55m SW of the site of the medieval market cross. This house, consisting of a number of buildings divided by courtyards, was built by Martin Archer, whose armorial plaque (KK019-026179-) adorns the front of the building, bearing his coat of arms and the date 1582. Most of the original six-bay, three-storey over basement late 16th-century house survives intact incorporated into the present buildings at 17-19 High Street (Farrelly et al 1993, 41; Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; 2010, 254). This includes the main Archer house on the street frontage, which was linked to an inner house, converted in the mid-1700s into 'the Hole in Wall' supper-club (KK019-026050-), via a link-building. Although substantially altered in the 19th century, nos. 17-19 High Street still retain many of the original fine limestone architectural features belonging to the Archer house, including cut stone late 16th-century doorways, mullioned windows and an octagonal chimney. Late 16th/mid-17th century garden features were uncovered in test-excavations (07E0910) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil in the rear plot. To the rear (W) of the inner house a section of the original walled burgage plot (dims. 28m E-W x 17.5m N-S) survives relatively intact. Remains of a fine Tudor garden were noted here by Lanigan and Tyler in 1977 but it is now heavily overgrown (Lanigan and Tyler 1987, 61). The plot would have originally extended a further 70 W to the town wall (KK026-019001-), but this part of it was built upon in the late 18th/early 19th century for a Methodist chapel (NIAH 12001125). At 17.5m wide the burgage plot measures exactly 3.5 perches. Test-excavations (07E0910) here demonstrated the standing N, S and E garden walls were built around the same time as the main house complex and their offset foundations were cut through an earlier introduced horticultural soil containing 13th/14th century Kilkenny-type and Highhays Ware pottery (Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; 2010, 254). Deep deposits of construction-rubble make-up (0.75m D), probably derived from the building of the house in 1582, topped with a (1m D) layer of introduced horticultural soil, were spread within the burgage walls and over the earlier, medieval, garden horizon to form a new garden, which was used throughout the late 16th/17th century. The level of the garden was raised again, probably for orchards, in the 18th century. All of the archaeological features were preserved in situ. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026050 Inn
  Description

  Occupying the rear of no. 17 High Street, Kilkenny, within the walls of the Hightown of Kilkenny and on the chief thoroughfare of the Anglo-Norman town, 55m SW of the site of the medieval market cross. A late 16th-century-house, consisting of a number of buildings divided by courtyards, was built by Martin Archer, whose armorial plaque (KK019-026179-) adorns the front of the building, bearing his coat of arms and the date 1582. The main house (KK019-026049-), on the street frontage, was linked to an inner house via a link-building (Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; 2009, unpublished; 2010, 254; 2012, 210). It was probably originally the main service and kitchen area of the late 16th-century complex and was converted in the mid-1700s into 'the Hole in Wall' supper-club, which continued in use for about a century. A detailed account of the events and personalities that frequented the place is to be found in Conway (2001, 6-24). Major structural alterations would have been required to change the dwelling into a supper-house and there are signs of these today in the brick fireplaces and reset chimney on the N side of the inner house. The S side of the ruined inner house was restored as a public house and venue in 2001-8; the N side remains roofless and semi-ruinous. Original features include, in the W wall, a single-light window with chamfered jambs at ground-floor level, four two-light three-centred windows with hood-mouldings at first-floor level and a cut-stone octagonal chimney mid-way along the northernmost portion, with a broach-stop terminating four opposing angles resting on the square base and projecting mouldings at the top. There is a round-headed doorway in a cross-wall at ground level. In the S gable there is a large polished limestone depressed three-centred fireplace with chamfered surround at ground-floor level, two four-centred two-light windows with hood-moulding at attic level and the gable is surmounted by a square chimney (Farrelly et al. 1993, 42; Conway 2001, 8, 12, 15, 17, 20) Late 16th to 18th-century floors and culverts were uncovered in test-excavations (07E0910) and monitoring (07E0684) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (Ó Drisceoil 2008; 2009; 2010; 2012). Archaeological monitoring (07E0684) of ground reduction and services installation for the restoration of the S side of the inner house uncovered a cobbled yard surface between the rear (W) of the building and its walled garden. A beaten-earth sub-floor of the building, probably the original late 16th-century floor, was revealed sealed beneath a later culvert and flagstone paving, the later possibly relates to its use as a tavern (Ó Drisceoil 2009, unpublished; 2012, 210). Test-excavation in the N side of the inner house (07E0910) revealed the E face of a N-S orientated dividing wall within the building and the continuation of the flagstone floor over a make-up deposit containing what appears to have been waste (18th-century bottle-glass, clay-pipes, coins and tokens) from the tavern (Ó Drisceoil 2008; 2010). All of the features remain preserved in situ. After lying derelict and partially roofless for many years, the building was reopened as a pub in 2009 following conservation work. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026051 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026052 Memorial stone
  Description

  This record is for the original location of a memorial stone found in 1894 during rebuilding of No. 33 High Street. The stone is presently located in St. Canice's Cathedral (KK019-026029-). For description and details see the present location record (KK019-026169-). (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 43) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• KK019-026053 Building
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• KK019-026054 Church
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• KK019-026055 Shambles
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• KK019-026056 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  A late 16th/ mid-17th-century gable and chimney is present in the S gable of no. 71 High Street (G.L. Ryan, Jeweller), indicating a house of similar age is incorporated into the present largely 19th-century house and commercial premises (Farrelly et al. 1993, 44). Excavations between the rear (E) of No. 71 High Street and the street frontage on the W side of Kieran Street undertaken by Sheila Lane (01E0254) revealed a circular well (int. diam. 1m) and c. 1.5m of medieval and post-medieval reclamation and make-up dumps (Lane 2002, unpublished; 2004, 277-8). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026057 Architectural fragment
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• KK019-026058 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026059 House - 17th century
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• KK019-026060 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026061 Town hall
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  On the E side of High Street, no. 83. This refers to an earlier Tholsel, the predecessor of the present Tholsel (built in 1761), the loggia of which occupies the site of the earlier building. Built in the late 16th/ early 17th century, as suggested in an inquisition of 1619 which was held in, 'le new Tholsell' (Hogan 1879-82, 243). This building functioned as a town hall, though it also carried out market house and court house functions. A visitor in 1730 noted that, 'the Tholsel is remarkable; though small, it is very neat' (ibid.). In the Kilkenny Corporation minute book there are references to rebuilding taking place in 1695 (Bradley 2000, 15). Hogan (ibid. 244), refers to repairs made in 1753 relating to a payment to a bricklayer, 'for arching under the Market part of the Tholsel' and gives extracts from the treasurer of the Corporation's ledger which show that there were four stalls or shops at ground-floor level, rented out to tenants, while the upper floor was occupied by the 'City Chambers or Town hall'. Rocque's map of 1758 shows the building projecting into the street with a row of buildings adjoining to the E, and rear access to the building from a narrow lane extending westward from Saint Mary's Lane. The old tholsel was demolished in 1760. Reference: Hogan, J. 1879-82 The three Tholsels of Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 15, 236-53. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 March 2023

• KK019-026062 House - 16th century
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  Nos. 91-93 High Street, on the E side of the street, opposite Friary Street, presently the 'Paris Texas' public house and restaurant and 'Porter's Newsagent', incorporates the standing remains of the stone mansion house built in 1580 by Henry Shee and his wife Francis Crisp (Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 22, 70-82; Farrelly et al. 1993, 46). Henry Shee was mayor of Kilkenny in 1601 and 1611. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes the property as, 'A Stone house slated (Length 64 [c. 19.5m]; breadth 22 [c. 6.7m]; rooms 18); A Stable slated the walls p[ar]te stone and p[ar]te Timber and lathes (Length 17 [c. 5m]; breadth 18 [c. 5.5m]; rooms 2); A house of Office boarded ye walls wattles & clay (Length 8 [c. 2.4m]; breadth 6 [c. 1.8m])' and lists Richard Shee as the occupier of the house (Simington 1942, 508). The house extended from the High Street façade on the W to St. Mary's Lane, the E boundary of the precinct of St. Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) and graveyard (KK019-026156-). The building, one of the earliest of the corpus of Renaissance-style townhouses that were built in Kilkenny in the later 16th/early 17th centuries, had survived largely intact, including its original timberwork, until c. 1928, at which time it was largely gutted internally for a Woolworths department store (Phelan 1954, 21-22). Although the internal floors and fixtures and fittings were removed at this time, much of the original envelope of the house remains upstanding, including a fine cut-stone fireplace and chimney breast in the N gable, the S gable and part of the front W façade, with two small square-headed windows with hood-mouldings on a gable fronting the High Street (O'Donovan et al. 2005, 15-22). An original string course is present on the rear elevation and partially intact on the front elevation. The basement level of the house is also largely intact. Pre c. 1928 photographs indicate the building originally had two gables fronting onto High Street, only one of which is still in situ. The photographs also show an octagonal chimney (removed c. 1949) and pointed gables on the S elevation of the house. An armorial plaque (KK019-026081-) on the street façade bears the arms of Henry Shee and his wife, Frances Crisp and is said to have had a date of 1580, this portion of the stone has been broken off. Archaeological test-excavations within the rear SW portion of the site by Sinéad Phelan uncovered a portion of what may be the boundary wall between the rear of the house and the cemetery (KK019-026156) of nearby St. Mary's church (Phelan 2006). Human skeletal burials, part of the medieval graveyard of St. Mary's, were identified to the E of the wall (ibid.). Elsewhere, much of the area had been scarped to the level of the glacial boulder clay. See attached photograph: KK019-026062-_01 Google Earth street view, imagery date September 2019 KK019-026062-_02 Illustration of Henry Shee house in 1850 from Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 22 Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 22 March 2022

• KK019-026063 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026064 Chapel
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• KK019-026070 Bridge
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• KK019-026081 Armorial plaque
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  An armorial plaque on the street façade of the house (KK019-026062-) formerly of Henry Shee which occupies nos. 91-3 High Street. The rectangular limestone plaque bears the coat of arms, in high relief within a shield at the top of the plaque, of Henry Shee, impaling that of this first wife, Frances Crisp. An inscription in raised lettering in three horizontal lines occupies the lower portion of the plaque. Graves (1849-50, 43) describes the plaque as being, 'sculptured with an achievement of ten quarterings together with the letters H. S. and the following inscription:- Henry Shee of Kilkeni, gentleman, & Frances Crisp, his wife's, arms. The upper portion of this stone is unfortunately broken off, and lost, but I have been informed that it bore the date of 1580'. Crotty (2009, 200-203) discusses the heraldry in some detail and notes that the upper portion of the plaque is damaged, with both upper corners being replaced with concrete. See attached photograph: KK019-026081-_01 https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/the-ten-civic-families-of-kilkenny/; accessed 23 March 2022 KK019-026081-_02 Google Earth street view, imagery date September 2019 KK019-026081-_03 Illustration of Henry Shee house in 1850 from Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 22 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 March 2022

• KK019-026082 Well
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  An archaeological excavation (92E0038) was carried out by John Channing in 1992 within plot that stretched from High Street to the western stretch of the town wall of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Channing 1992, unpublished; 1993). The plot is shown as wholly occupied by buildings extending N-S from Red Lane to James Street and E-W from High Street to the town wall on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. The site was occupied by the Presentation convent school and chapel, James's Street from 1800 until 1992, at which time it was demolished for construction of the present Market Cross Shopping Centre (Bradley 2000, 14). The excavations, in advance of construction of the shopping centre, uncovered two circular drystone-built wells, this well (D 10.36m) between the NW corner of the former convent building and James's Street and another (KK019-026095-) at the W end of Red Lane. Both wells had been backfilled in the 20th century. Portions of the wells were preserved in situ below the formation level of the present shopping centre. Stone-lined and unlined pits (KK019-026149-) containing medieval pottery were also recorded adjacent to James's Street. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 28 March 2022

• KK019-026083 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026084 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026085 House - 16th/17th century
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  The late 16th/early 17th-century house (NIAH 12000025) known as 'Rothe House' is situated on the W side of Parliament Street. It occupies the frontage of a rectangular walled enclosure (dims. 60m E-W; 15m N-S) that extends 157m W from Parliament Street as far as the line of the medieval town wall (KK019-026001-). Within the enclosure three rectangular houses are arranged parallel to each other, all rising to two storeys with dormer attics. To the rear of each of the houses is a courtyard, the largest situated between the second and third houses. Side-buildings known as ‘out-scales’ link the houses together, enabling ease of access to all areas of the complex. Though a full architectural survey and assessment of the Rothe House has not yet been undertaken, numerous general accounts of the site have appeared in print (Graves 1849, 41-47; Graves and Prim 1859, 322-331; Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 76-9; Lanigan 1967). A buildings archaeology assessment of the second house has been completed by Ben Murtagh (1994, Unpublished). The 2002 Rothe House Conservation Plan also provides a useful overview (Ozmin et. al. 2002, 21-32). The house complex and its garden plot to its rear have been the subject of a number of archaeological excavations, as outlined below. A plaque on the façade to Parliament street records the year 1594, which is thought to refer to the date the first of the three houses was completed. A medieval house (KK019-026215-), belonging to the Cistercians of Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamangh, occupied the site until the dissolution of the monastery in the 1540s, following which it became the property of John Rothe (Burtchaell 1886, 629-31; Curtis 1943, no. 89). The first house has an arcaded ground-floor façade to the street, which would have originally acted as a covered walkway that extended along the street frontage to the N and S; behind it were shops, with cellars for storage beneath. A gable crowned by an octagonal chimney forms the central axis of the house. The main reception hall of the mansion was over the shops and the servant’s quarters were situated in the attic storey. An elaborate well and cistern on the S side of the second courtyard bears an inscription on its pediment which translates from Latin as, ‘1604 Pray for the souls of John Rothe merchant and his wife Rose Archer who built this structure’. The well also acted as a cistern, being fed by rainwater from an elaborate stone-gulley system that runs along the S elevations of the first and second houses. The date of 1604 on the well has been taken to infer the year in which the second house was finished, though it is more likely this refers solely to the well and given the limited space available in the first house the second house was probably built shortly after the first house (Lanigan 1967, 4). The second house contained the master bedroom on the N and the remainder was taken up with the apartments of John Rothe FitzPiers's wife, Rose Archer, as well as a secondary kitchen. An archway runs through the house giving access into the second courtyard. 1610 has been long suggested as the year when the third and westernmost house of the complex was finished (Lanigan 1967, 7). However, this is based on the occurrence of this date on a stone plaque that was found rebuilt into the wall beside well, and it may not necessarily be associated with the house (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 79). Interestingly, John Rothe’s will of 1619 refers to the third house as his ‘new house’, perhaps indicating a slightly later date than 1610 (Healy 1893, 383). The chief kitchen, known as the 'great kitchen', was located here, as was the bakery, brew house, storage rooms and servant’s sleeping quarters. The children’s rooms are thought to have been positioned on the floors above. A small rectangular courtyard to the rear (W) of the third house contained a series of work-areas and sheds. The 1654 Civil Survey records a total of 26 rooms between the three houses of the complex, making it a quite substantial dwelling (Simington 1942, 504). To put it in perspective the largest houses noted in the Civil Survey, both on High Street, are that of Edward Fitzgerald which had forty-one rooms and the Archer mansion which had forty rooms (Simington 1942, 503). All of the rooms at Rothe House would have been open-plan, heated by large fireplaces and with oak wainscoting throughout. Elaborate stucco plasterwork would have decorated the ceilings and internal walls; much of the panelling and plasterwork survived until at least the late 19th century (Lanigan 1967, 13). John Rothe made his will ten months prior to his death in January 1620. Though the original will was destroyed in 1922, a transcription was made by Burtchaell and reproduced in Healy’s History and Antiquities of Kilkenny (Burtchaell 1886, 630-31; Healy 1893, 381-396; Lanigan 1963). This document provides invaluable information on how the rooms of the house functioned, as well as a unique insight into its contents and furnishing, for example it describes '... all my drawing tables, bedsteads, cupboards, livery cupboards, virginals, wainscot, ioynt-stools, chairs, my great cipresse chest and cipresse counter... my pewter, brass, batry, iron beddings of feathers and flocks…sey greene hangings or curtyns of both my best bedsteads, in addition to plate, diaper, Holland and linen' (Healy 1893, 381-396). John Rothe died January 31st 1620 and was buried in his chantry chapel at St. Mary’s, Kilkenny (KK019-026115-). When the church was modified in 1820 his Renaissance-style mural monument (KK019-026343-) was moved and reconstructed in its current location in the graveyard perimeter wall to the N of the N transept. John Rothe’s son, Peter Rothe, fitz John was named heir to the house in John Rothe’s will and was in possession of it 1640 according to the Civil Survey (Simington 1942, 504). In 1654, Peter was transplanted to Connaught along with 25 other prominent Kilkenny individuals and he died shortly after (Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 45; Lanigan 1967, 8). It was Captain Thomas Evans of the Parliamentary army who was granted most of the houses in the vicinity of Parliament Street and the Black Abbey; Evan’s Lane, which runs along the S side of the Rothe House garden bears his name. Although we have no direct evidence to support the claim, it may have been him who took possession of the Rothe House in 1654 (Bradley 2006, Appendix 2). Following the 1660 Restoration the details surrounding ownership of Rothe House are somewhat vague. According to Lanigan, Peter Rothe’s daughter Rose became heiress to the house on the death of John Rothe’s son Peter, and Rose’s son Marcus Shee of Walsheshays or Sheestown was in possession of the site in 1690 (Lanigan 1967, 8). Rothe House does not appear to be specifically mentioned in the schedule of properties surrendered by Kilkenny Corporation to the Duke of Ormond in 1677 but the Ormonds were certainly in possession in 1701 when it was leased by the second Duke to one Abel Butler (O’Dwyer 1994, 12; Booklet of Title to Rothe House; Bradley 2006, Appendix 2). In 1727 a lease was drawn up between Thomas Butler and William Johnson for the house (O’Dwyer 1994, 12). In 1735 the Kilkenny Corporation minutes record the construction of New Building Lane and refer to Rothe House as being still in the possession of Thomas Butler (Corporation Minutes 19.2.1735 (p. 93)) and the Butlers were also still in possession in 1793 (Finn’s Leinster Journal 17.8.1793). John Rocque’s 1758 Survey of the City of Kilkenny contains the earliest plan known of the Rothe House and garden although it shows the house complex, it is rather schematic. In 1811 the house was let by Mary Butler of Pottlerath to Andrew Wolfe who ran a private school in the house (Leinster Journal 9.3.1811; O’Dwyer 1994, 12; Ozmin et.al. 2002, 25). In 1835 Rothe House and its gardens were advertised for sale following a court order (Kilkenny Moderator 3.1.1835). Around this time the 1st (1839-40) e

• KK019-026086 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026087 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026088 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026089 Graveslab
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• KK019-026090 Building
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• KK019-026091 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026092 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026093 Castle - unclassified
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  At the location of, and possibly incorporated in, the 18th-century Kilkenny Courthouse (NIAH 12000084) on Parliament Street, in the medieval Hightown of Kilkenny that expanded between James's Street and the river Breagagh after 1207. In the 13th century, William le Gros built a castle here, which became known as 'Grace's Castle' (O'Carroll 1983, 32). In 1566, it was yielded to the Crown for use as a 'Sheire Gaol' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 69-70). It seems to have served this function until c. 1794, when it was probably rebuilt as a courthouse (ibid.). In the 19th century, the upper portion of the building was modified and the balcony and stone steps were added (ibid.). Since then it has remained largely unchanged. Though nothing of the original castle or prison is now visible, it is possible that some early remains are incorporated in the later phases of development (Farrelly et al. 1993, 76). A wall at the SW of the courthouse was recorded as possibly part of a 15th-century phase of Grace’s Castle during archaeological monitoring by Maedbh Saunderson (08E0462) (Saunderson 2008, unpublished). The wall was noted as being thicker than the post-medieval walls encountered elsewhere during the excavation. It was partially demolished during the construction of the new SW stairwell of the courthouse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026094 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026095 Well
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  An archaeological excavation (92E0038) was carried out by John Channing in 1992 within plot that stretched from High Street to the western stretch of the town wall of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Channing 1992, unpublished; 1993). The plot is shown as wholly occupied by buildings extending N-S from Red Lane to James Street and E-W from High Street to the town wall on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. The site was occupied by the Presentation convent school and chapel, James's Street from 1800 until 1992, at which time it was demolished for construction of the present Market Cross Shopping Centre (Bradley 2000, 14). The excavations, in advance of construction of the shopping centre, uncovered two circular drystone-built wells, this well (D > 8m) at the W end of Red Lane (D > 8m) and another (KK019-026082-) between the NW corner of the former convent building and James's Street. Both wells had been backfilled in the 20th century. Portions of the wells were preserved in situ below the formation level of the present shopping centre. Stone-lined and unlined pits (KK019-026149-) containing medieval pottery were also recorded adjacent to James's Street. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 28 March 2022

• KK019-026097 Architectural fragment
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• KK019-026099 Inn
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• KK019-026100 Almshouse
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• KK019-026101 Religious house - Franciscan friars
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  In a low-lying position, on soft alluvial soil, at the confluence of the River Nore, to the E, and the River Breagagh to the N (Bradley 1990, 72). Located within the NE angle of the Kilkenny city and incorporated within the city wall (KK019-026001-), one of the mural towers of which, known as Evans Turret, stands c. 75m N of the E gable of the friary church. St. Francis’ Well (KK019-026189-), now covered within a building, lies c. 35m NE of the church. Bradley (2000, 4) suggests that access to the abbey was, 'via Jenkin's Lane, now the southern part of The Ring, while a bridge over the Breagagh gave access, through Grey Freren Gate, from Irishtown'. The foundation is attributed to Richard Marshall, 3rd earl of Marshall, shortly before his death in 1234 (Carrigan 1905, vol.3, 104). However, in 1246 King Henry III granted money to the Friars Minor of Kilkenny ‘to construct their buildings and discharge their debts’, which suggests that building work may not have commenced until then (ibid.). Throughout the early 14th century the events of the abbey were recorded by Friar Clyn. He reports the erection of a new choir in 1321 and the consecration of the high altar in 1323-4 (ibid. 104). The altar is described in c. 1615 as, a single piece of marble (probably polished Kilkenny limestone), measuring 'twenty-four feet by four feet [7.3m x 1.2m]' (O'Keefe 2016, 22-3). In 1338, as a result of a major flood, ‘the entire Abbey of the Friars Minors at Kilkenny, naught, save the high altar, and the altar steps, was left untouched and uncovered by water’ (ibid, 105). In 1347, Lady Isabella Palmer who, ‘built the front of the choir’ died and in the same year a Confraternity was established to procure funds ‘for the erection of a new bell tower and for the repairs of the church’ (ibid.). The following year, in 1348, the Black Death arrived and the progress of the plaque and its effects were recorded by Friary Clyn until June 1349 when it is presumed he succumbed to the plaque himself (ibid.). Excavations by Sweetman between 1970 and 1980 uncovered 'multiple irregularly buried individuals in the western ambulatory of the Franciscan cloister at Kilkenny, suggestive of hastily buried disease victims' (O'Keefe 2016, 21, 29). In the mid-15th century the abbey church has a chapel dedicated to St Francis, as is evident from a will dated 1462 of a burgess who wished to be buried before the image of St Francis in the chapel at the Friars Minor (ibid. 25-6). According to O'Keefe (2016, 26), this chapel, 'was almost certainly the transept, built around this time' and the 'interment of wealthy Kilkenny burgesses within the transept continued until at least 1624'. Other chapels included one dedicated to Our Lady, as is evidenced by a chalice donated in 1606 to the ‘Lady Chapel’ (ibid.). O’Keefe (2016, 32-3) suggests that the dedicatory inscriptions to Our Lady and five saints, including St Francis, around the base of the chalice, ‘may reflect a dedicatory scheme of subsidiary altars within the transept and nave’. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, the assets of the friary included, ‘a church and belfry, two chambers, a granary over three cellars, a barn, kitchen, cemetery, orchard with two closes, cont. 2 acres, a weir on the River Nore, a water-mill, a tiled chapel’, as well as ‘a dormitory, hall, third chamber and cloister’ the latter mentioned when the friary was granted to the sovereign, Walter Archer, and commonalty of Kilkenny in 1543 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 107; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 252-3). The friars were expelled in 1550 but returned under Queen Mary in 1553 before being expelled again in 1559 under Queen Elizabeth (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 253). The leasing of various rooms and buildings within the abbey complex between 1573 and 1628 is described by O’Keefe (2016, 35-6). The church was probably re-dedicated on the accession of King James I in 1603 and continued in use until 1650 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 108). In 1698 the abbey was assigned for building barracks (ibid., 109) and in 1708, ‘St. Francis’ Abbey (now in the possession of his father) set to John Desborough … excepting thereout the horse-barrack, hay-yard, and the set of pillars and uncovered walls within the said Abbey’ (ibid.). According to Hogan (1860-61, vol. 6, 351) the cloister of the abbey was taken down to erect a horse barrack on its site. Rocque's map of 1758 indicates the 'Horse Barracks' S of the nave, possibly where the W claustral range was located (Bradley 2000, map 5). In 1710 the abbey precinct was incorporated into the St Francis’ Abbey Brewery, founded by the Smithwick family. A sketch of the abbey church by Grose c. 1791 shows the choir with the E window completely blocked up, the bell tower and the E end of the nave, with three lancets in the S wall and none in the wall opposite (Grose 1791 (reprint 1982), plate 45). Built up against the S wall of the nave is a row of four single-storey thatched buildings, each with a central doorway and window either side (ibid.). In the latter half of the 19th century the Royal Society of Antiquaries undertook some structural support work and repairs to the surviving building, including the insertion of metal pillars under the bell tower (Graves 1868-9, vol. 10, 213). In 1872 Prim (1872-3, vol. 12, 192) recorded that, ‘the sedilia had been repaired, and all the windows of the choir had been opened, after having been walled up for perhaps a century, to adapt the ancient building to the purposes of a raquet-court’. In addition, Graves noted that Mr Smithwick had promised to ‘remove portion of the coopers’ shed, in his brewery premises, which had been erected against the centre mullions of the great east window, while it was built up’ (ibid.). The friary was vested to the State by the Church Temporalities Commission on 30th October, 1880. Between 1888-97 some limited repairs were carried out, including the insertion of a timber centring frame under the arches of the tower, at the E and W side (1888-9, Appendix E; 1897-8, Appendix E, 42. Unpublished OPW reports). Around 1927, the timber centring was replaced by a similar reinforced concrete centring (OPW Archives). The St Francis Abbey site, apart from the abbey church and tower, remained in the ownership of the brewery until 2012 when it was purchased by Kilkenny County Council (O’Keefe 2016, 7). The upstanding remains consist of the chancel (dims. 22.2m E-W; 7.9m N-S at E end and 7.97m at W end and bell tower. Both constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble (N wall av. T 1m; H c. 8.5m; E gable av. T 1.18m; H c. 12m; S wall av. T 0.96-1.1m; H c. 8.5m). A section of parapet projecting externally above a string course is visible on top of the S wall (H c. 0.6m; T c. 0.2m; c. 16 drain holes) with another section towards the W end of the N wall (H c. 0.5m; T c. 0.2m; c. 26 drain holes), both are significantly repaired. There are several low, wide relieving arches (N wall 2.86m from NE angle Wth 3m; H 0.1m; S wall 2.7m from NW angle Wth 3m; H 0.6m; E gable 1m from NW angle Wth 6.5m; H 0.85m) at the base of the eastern end of the chancel, these are testament to the need to provide additional support to the walls due to the large window openings and also perhaps also because of the soft nature of the ground. This need for support probably also explains the unusually high plinth (N wall H 2.6m; T 0.16m; S wall H 3.8m; T 0.15m) which runs along the N and S walls. The E end of the chancel was rebuilt in the early 14th century, possibly due to subsidence or collapse. The masonry suggests most of the E gable and c. 7m of the E end of the N wall were rebuilt. In the N wall the termination of the plinth 6.2m from the NE angle indicates the break. This does not continue vertically from the break of the plinth upwards but is visible as an irregular line c. 1m westward, providing space to accommodate the large window that is contemporary with the rebuild. The buttress at the SW angle of the bell tower

• KK019-026102 Bridge
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• KK019-026108 Ritual site - holy well
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• KK019-026109 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026110 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026111 Inn
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  Kyteler’s Inn, opposite the Market Slip on St Kieran's Street is a rare surviving example, albeit much modified by restorations undertaken in 1966, of a medieval merchant’s house and inn (O'Cochlain 1968; Farrelly et al. 1993, 92; Bradley 2000, 25). A thorough archaeological building study has never been completed of the structure but it is clear that much of the standing historic fabric is of pre-1700 date. The rectangular building (ext. dims. 19.5m N-S x 8.25m E-W) consists of two-storeys over a basement. The first floor is completely occupied by a hall, referred to in 1432 as 'Ketleryshall', that runs parallel to the street-frontage and above a vaulted cellar supported on octagonal pillars that is probably of earlier, perhaps 14th century, date (Bradley 2000, 25). The front/W elevation has been much altered and the roof has been lowered. At the N end of the front wall the upper part of a round-headed doorway with hood-moulding is visible, indicating that the original street level was considerably lower. What appears to be a late medieval link building flanks the S side of a square courtyard to the rear of the cellar. This basic plan of house/link building/courtyard finds parallels at Rothe House and like at this site the area to the S (currently the service yard) was probably occupied by a laneway and another, separate, burgage plot. The building retains many architectural details typical of this latter period (Farrelly et al. 1993, 92). In the N gable, for example, there are a number of single- and two-light chamfered windows, two with hood-mouldings. In the wall which continues the gable eastward there is a round-headed two-light window. There are two domestic wells in the yard behind which were revealed during restoration work in 1966. St. Kieran's Well is located in the yard behind Kyteler's Inn. A 13th-century font (KK019-026150-), which was found in this well, is now kept in St. Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). Kyteler's Inn is reputed to be the house of the famous Kilkenny witch Alice Kyteler. Archaeological test-excavations by Margaret Gowen (94E0199 and 95E0062) within the site and in its environs indicate that the building is situated on deeply stratified and waterlogged deposits associated with the reclamation of the floodplain of the river Nore in the 13th/14th century (Gowen 1994; 1995; 1996, 50). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 16 November 2020

• KK019-026112 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026113 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026114 House - 16th/17th century
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• KK019-026115 Church
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  The parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as St. Mary’s, is located in the centre of the walled Anglo-Norman Hightown of Kilkenny, immediately beside the town's main medieval marketplace on the High Street. Built around the year 1200 by the Earl of Pembroke and Lord of Leinster William Marshal, the church served the community of the urban parish of St. Mary's (Ó Drisceoil 2020, 165). It would appear the church, or at least a substantial portion of it, had been completed by 1202-5 when Theobald Walter, Butler of Ireland, did repentance there for lands he had seized from the Ossory episcopal estate (Ormond Deeds, 1172-1350, no. 23). The church is situated N of what was originally a c. 1.2 acre precinct, possibly at least partially defined by a stone wall, that contained the main graveyard (KK019-026156-) for the town, as well as dwelling-houses for the chaplains, a hospital/almshouse (KK019-026100-) and at least one churchyard cross (no longer extant). The church that stands today represents a much-diminished version of-the original early 13th-century building and although it was built on a relatively grand scale, in an Irish context, there is little indication for ostentation in its surviving architecture. The few remaining 13th-century Early English Gothic lancets and mouldings are quite plain, none of the roof was stone-vaulted, being instead entirely in timber, and the church never had a crossing-tower or a crypt. Based on architectural, archaeological and historical evidence the plan form of the original 13th-century church can be reconstructed as a cruciform-plan building with a long chancel, an aisled nave of four bays and a S (and possible a N) entrance porch. Clerestory windows in the N and S walls of the nave were set to overlook the roofs of the aisles. A Lady Chapel, entered via an arch on the E side of the S transept, was probably attached to the S wall of the chancel, although when precisely this was constructed remains unknown. In 1343 a large rectangular tower was added to the NW end of the nave. The interior walls of the church would have been plastered and painted with religious scenes but these were almost completely removed during the 18th century rebuilding of the church and the 19th century remodelling, with the exception of a single patch of wall painting overlain by incised compass tracings of geometric shapes that was found preserved on the W face of one of the 13th-century piers in the N arcade of the nave. Very little remains of the wall painting but it appears to represent a figurative scene. A major campaign to modify St. Mary's church for Protestant use between 1748-52 included the demolition of most of the chancel and the nave-aisles and the complete rebuilding of the E and W walls of the transepts, the crossing and the E end of the nave (Dolan 2000, 115-17). This is essentially the church that is depicted on the earliest accurate map of the site by John Rocque dated 1758. The mid-18th century building campaign also saw the church being re-roofed, using timbers that were largely derived from an earlier roof which has been dendrochronologically dated to 1619. Rubble derived from the demolitions of the medieval church was spread out internally to raise a new floor by around 0.7m over the original, medieval, floor level; this, crucially from an archaeological perspective, acted to preserve much of the earlier levels, including burials and funerary sculptures. In 1819 the 14th-century NW tower was demolished to the level of its foundations and the W wall and window of the nave was removed and replaced with a new Gothic-Revival style tower; its porch acts as the main entrance today. Following a decision in 1953 to deconsecrate the church it was transformed into a C of I parish hall, work on which was completed in 1964. As part of this work a 'monuments room' was created in the N transept, which housed a large collection of funerary monuments that have been formerly within the rest of the church, and others from the surrounding graveyard. Subsequent deterioration of the church fabric and vandalism to some of its external burial monuments in the 1990s-early 2000s led in 2009 to the site being purchased from the C of I by Kilkenny Borough Council (now amalgamated with Kilkenny County Council) and the construction of the present Medieval Mile Museum, which was officially opened in April 2017. Around 70% of the internal area of the original medieval church was excavated in 2015-16 in advance of remodelling of the church for the Medieval Mile Museum (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished; 2020, 161-84). Within the church this involved the removal of c. 0.7-1.1m of make-up and floor levels that had been introduced after the major rebuilding of the church between 1748-52. The depth that was reached in the excavation generally equated with the ground level that was maintained within the church between its initial construction in the early 13th century and the rebuilding phase. The earliest evidence for human activity uncovered in the excavations was represented by a deposit of charcoal and burnt material, possibly rake out from a hearth or kiln, that was dumped on the former riverbank and was identified at a depth of 2.75m (49.69m OD) below present ground level, beside the Shee family mausoleum within the E end of the (medieval) chancel. A sample of the charcoal was dated by radiocarbon to AD 430-590. Only less than a metre width of the deposit was uncovered in the excavated cutting so it is difficult to determine if it represents part of a larger settlement or it is simply a discrete deposit, which was fortuitously uncovered in the excavation. Regardless, it does point towards activity on the site in the early medieval period, perhaps connected with the monastery founded by St Patrick at Domhnach Mór, 460m to the S of St. Mary's. The earliest evidence excavated for human burial on the site was a single infant burial radiocarbon dated to cal AD 1170-1290 which was found beneath the foundations of the early 13th-century N wall of the chancel. Since the burial predated construction of the N wall of the chancel in the early 13th century the burial probably belongs to the last quarter of the 12th century and she/he may therefore have been part of the very first community of Anglo-Norman colonists that settled in Kilkenny from c. 1172. There is a suggestion that there was a church at St. Mary's in c. 1175, which bishop David Rothe referred to in c. 1640 as a chapel for earl Richard de Clare's castle at Kilkenny Castle, and it is possible that the child burial formed part of a graveyard associated with this church. No other contemporary burials were found with the child and why she/he was buried in what would at the time have been wet ground on the edge of the river floodplain is something of a mystery. The precise date at which construction of the primary masonry parish church occurred remains unclear and no independent or scientific dating was retrieved during the excavation with which it could be refined beyond the historically-documented early 13th-century date. The excavations demonstrated that the foundations, all of lime-mortar bonded random rubble limestone and offset from the main walls, were first constructed in a trench that cut into the sod level that covered earlier alluvial deposits and the infant burial, and were stepped down for the eastern arm of the church, to follow the steep slope of the natural river-plain escarpment. For the remaining western half of the church, including the crossing, transepts and nave, the foundations were inserted into a much shallower trench that was dug into the firm glacial boulder clay. At the E end of the (medieval) chancel, once the standing walls had been partially completed a series of deposits was dumped to level off the natural slope and this provided the base for the floor (Floor 1, at 52.45m OD) in this part of the church. Throughout the rest of the church the original floor level

• KK019-026116 Brewery
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• KK019-026149 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  An archaeological excavation (92E0038) was carried out by John Channing in 1992 within plot that stretched from High Street to the western stretch of the town wall of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Channing 1992, unpublished; 1993). The plot is shown as wholly occupied by buildings extending N-S from Red Lane to James Street and E-W from High Street to the town wall on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. The site was occupied by the Presentation convent school and chapel, James's Street from 1800 until 1992, at which time it was demolished for construction of the present Market Cross Shopping Centre (Bradley 2000, 14). Stone-lined and unlined pits containing medieval pottery were excavated adjacent to James's Street. One of the pits contained cess-like material. Also uncovered were two wells (KK019-026082-; KK019-026095-), portions of which were preserved in situ below the formation level of the present shopping centre. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 28 March 2022

• KK019-026150 Font
  Description

  Beneath the crossing-tower of St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-), Kilkenny. According to Pike (1989, 574) this font was found 'in the old church in Kyteler's Inn, made of limestone, with flutes in Romanesque pairs. Fleur-de-lis in relief on surface. Although now preserved in the Franciscan Friary, there is no certainty that this is where it came from originally'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 March 2020

• KK019-026151 Graveslab
  Description

  In St. Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). According to the Rev. James Graves during the course of renovations to the abbey by the Board of Works in 1889, ‘a closed up doorway on the south side of the chancel was cleared of modern masonry, when it was found that the lintel was part of a coffin-shaped slab’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 109-10). The incised Lombardic inscription along the dexter side, starting at the base of the slab starts with a small incised cross followed by:  CI : GIT : RICARD : PURCELL’, which translates as, Here lies Richard Purcell. Only the lower half of this limestone tapering graveslab survives (L 1.26m; Wth at top 0.48m; Wth at base 0.44m; D 0.14m). It is decorated with an incised cross, only the cross-shaft (Wth 0.025-0.03m) survives terminating in a fleur-de-lis. There is a chamfer (Wth 0.075-0.08m) along the sinister side and the base. There is some weathering on the lower dexter edge and an area of spalling on the surface on the sinister side of the cross-shaft.   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK019-026155 Shambles
  Description

  In 1688 Kilkenny Corporation granted a lease for 'a waste in St. Ciaran's Well' to a William Jackson on condition that he establish a 'fish shambles' there. This seems to have been located between Kyteler's Inn and no. 27 St. Kieran's Street (Farrelly et al. 1993, 95). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 April 2022

• KK019-026156 Graveyard
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  St. Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) is situated in the N of what was originally a c.1.2 acre precinct that contained the main graveyard for the town, as well as dwelling-houses for the chaplains, a hospital/almshouse (KK019-026100-) and at least one churchyard cross (no longer extant). The present graveyard occupies 0.8 acres (including the church) but excavations (described below in St. Mary's Lane and Kieran Street) indicate that its medieval extent was in the region of 1.2 acres in total area and it extended well outside its present 18th century boundary walls. Human skeletal remains were investigated in 2000 by Ken Hanley (00E0712) following their discovery during mechanical excavation of a pipe trench on St. Mary's Lane, 10m S of the S transept of St. Mary's Church (KK019-026115-) and outside (S of) the present early 18th-century boundary wall of the graveyard (Hanley 2001). The pipeline excavation had truncated at least 44 skeletons and a further two individuals were fully excavated archaeologically. Where it was possible to determine, the graves containing the burials had been dug into the underlying glacial boulder clay and were orientated E-W, with their heads to the W. A cursory osteological examination of the truncated skeletal remains on site identified 6 adult males, 4 adult females, 27 adults (sex unknown), 1 middle adult, 3 early adults (sex unknown), 1 sub-adult (sex unknown), 1 female (unknown age). The excavator dated the burial horizon to the medieval period based on the association of 13th-14th century pottery with some of the interments. A section of a fosse (c. 4m Wth and 0.5m D.) identified 27m S of the S transept was interpreted as a possible boundary feature for the S side of the medieval churchyard. Sections of a metalled surface, probably the medieval lane that linked High Street with the entrance to St. Mary's churchyard, were recorded at the W end of St. Mary's Lane. Here, a 13th/14th century graveslab which had been reused as a drain was also recovered. Excavation by Ian Doyle of an E-W linear pipe-trench in 2003 at St. Mary's Lane, 30m NW of St. Mary's church (KK019-026115-), uncovered 11 in-situ human skeletal burials, outside (N of) the graveyard boundary formed by the early 18th-century boundary wall and a pair of early 19th century almshouses (Doyle 2003, unpublished; 2007). Based on stratigraphy and medieval pottery associations three phases of burial was identified, an early?-mid 13th century phase, a mid-13th century phase and a mid 13th-early 14th century phase. Grave cuts were identified in relation to a number of the burials and there no evidence for coffin-use. Nine of the burials were extended inhumations orientated E-W with their heads to the W. One burial was orientated N-S and another was orientated E-W but with its head to the E. The skull of one burial was supported by stones. It was possible to determine the sex and age of five individuals: 4 males (1 young adult, 2 middle adults, 1 older adult), 1 female (1 young adult). The burial horizon was covered by a 17th-18th century make-up layer. Human skeletal remains found during excavations in 1977 for a basement at 88-90 High Street, 'Goods' department store, c. 40m SW of St. Mary's church, were reported to the National Museum of Ireland by the Gardaí (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 484-5). According to the Gardaí, two skulls and some other bones were found during the works. No further analysis of the burials was undertaken. According to the shop owner further burials were present and were placed beneath the floor of the basement. Portion of the NE part of the medieval graveyard excavated (06E0712) by Denis Shine in 2008-9 at 44-8 Kieran Street, 20m N of the site of the chancel of St Mary's church (KK019-026115-) (Cotter and Shine 2010, 14; Shine 2011, 210-12). A total of 74 articulated/partially articulated burials, along with large amounts of disarticulated human bone, were excavated from under the foundations of the present 18th-century NE boundary wall of St Mary's graveyard (KK019-026156-) and behind (W of) a retaining wall that had been constructed in front of this boundary following demolition c. 1970 of a terrace of houses that had occupied the site. The earliest burials recorded were cut into the natural slope of a hill that extended to the W bank of the River Nore and these were overlain by intercutting graves containing burials orientated E-W, with their heads to the W. No evidence for coffins was recovered and instead the remains were interred in simple pit graves. In the absence of radiocarbon dates the chronology of the burials is poorly understood but it is proposed by the excavator that they date to the medieval period (Shine 2011, 210-12). Osteological analysis of the skeletal assemblage by Dara Fleming-Farrell indicated an age at death distribution ranging from pre-natal to advanced adulthood, a relatively balanced sex ratio, and a generally healthy population (Fleming-Farrell 2018). Excavations (12E0314) in the graveyard of St. Mary's were conducted in 2015-16 as part of the works for the reconstruction of the church as the Medieval Mile Museum (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished; 2020). A cutting excavated at the present entrance to the churchyard, 15m SW of the 19th century W tower of the church, included the excavation of 11 burials and the recording in situ of a number of others. Stratigraphically, the earliest burial excavated, that of an 11-14 year old adolescent which had been interred in a simple grave-pit dug into the underlying glacial boulder clay, was dated to cal AD 1310-1420. Burial had ceased in the area by cal AD 1470-1640. All of the burials excavated were aligned NE-SW, with their heads to the SW. They appear to have been aligned on a cobbled pathway that led off of the High Street towards the church. Some intercutting of burials had occurred. There were six adults and five juveniles and no coffins were identified with any of the burials. Instead, winding cloths/shrouds appear to have been used as indicated by green staining and copper-alloy pins from most of the burials. Four skeletons, all juveniles orientated E-W with their heads to the W, were also excavated in the area immediately outside (N of) the demolished N wall of the chancel. The earliest burial, stratigraphically, was dated to cal AD 1470-1650. A stone-lined grave which had been placed in the angle of the W wall of the N transept and the N wall of the N aisle (demolished 1748-9) had been incorporated into the 17th century Rothe chantry chapel. The grave contained the skeleton of an encoffined male (age 45 +) radiocarbon dated to cal AD 1430-90. The individual had been buried E-W with the head to the E and underlay two other encoffined skeletons of elderly males of probable 17th century date. Extensive burial activity occurred within the church during the 18th century including the insertion of large family burial vaults, single-width stone-lined graves and earth-cut graves. Within the external graveyard the use of headstones and more elaborate Classical-style mural monuments, such as that commemorating William Colles (d. 1779), who had been contracted to undertake the rebuilding of the church, became commonplace from the early 1700s. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 10 January 2023

• KK019-026170 Sheela-na-gig (present location)
  Description

  Sheela-na-gig currently stored in Cronin Room in Rothe House, Kilkenny. Discovered during clearance work in graveyard (KK030-004003-) containing medieval church (KK030-004001-), and said to have been buried there in early 19th century, after having been discovered in a local holy well (KK030-004006-) (Freitag 2004, 130). Described by Freitag as a figure, ‘carved in the round. Earless, inverted pear-shaped head; facial expression calm, ovoid eyes, wedge nose and slit-mouth. Thin neck, round shoulders; no breasts, but slightly incised ribs. Fingers of right hand just touching vulva, indicated as vertical line and ending in very noticeable deep hole. Left hand (much larger than the other) may hold an object resting on thigh. Peculiar leg position reminiscent of Egremont; left leg almost straight with foot turned inwards, while right leg tightly flexed at knee with heel of foot pointing at pudenda’ (Freitag 2004, 130). Cross-referenced with KK030-004006-. See attached screenshots of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6tusF Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2012

• KK019-026179 Armorial plaque
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  An armorial plaque on the front of a 16th/17th-century house (KK019-026049-) built by Martin Archer. The plaque bears his coat of arms and the date ‘1582’. (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 43) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 May 2013

• KK019-026180 Graveslab
  Description

  A ‘tombstone’ with a floriated cross in relief. One of two tombstones (KK019-026181-) found under the foundations of a building (KK019-026053-). (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 43) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 May 2013

• KK019-026181 Graveslab
  Description

  A ‘tombstone’ with an incised cross. One of two tombstones (KK019-026180-) found under the foundations of a building (KK019-026053-). (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 43) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 May 2013

• KK019-026182 House - 16th century
  Description

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• KK019-026183 Wall monument
  Description

  In St. Francis' Abbey (KK019-101----). A limestone mural tablet (L 0.865; Wth 037m; T 0.18m) with an English inscription in Roman capitals. According to the Rev. James Graves the fragment has been inserted into a wall in the starch-yard of the brewery which adjoined the abbey on the S side, he provided an transcription as follows: Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Agnes Banckes alias Smith. Daughter of Mr. John Smith of Damagh in the County of Kilkenny, Gentleman and was marryed to Mr. William Banckes of Kilkenny, Pewterer. Deceased the 8th day of January, 1687. I pray God be mercyfull to her Soule. Amen (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 109-10). The inscription is within a rectangular border (Wth 0.04m along top; 0.06m along the sides and 0.025m along the bottom), with an I.H.S. and M.A. within curvilinear brackets along the top border.  Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK019-026185 Armorial plaque
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  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.

• KK019-026189 Ritual site - holy well
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  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.

• KK019-026190 Graveslab
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  In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-), Kilkenny. Reused as the northernmost lintel in the N ground floor passage of the crossing-tower, only the upper surface and dexter side are visible. The upper end of a tapering slab with raised edges. It is decorated with a cross in false relief, consisting of a large four-lobed cross-head and cross-arms, on either side of a raised cross-shaft, with trefoil terminals. The upper side of the exposed graveslab is chamfered, splaying inwardly. Stylistically this graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century. See attached photographs by Chris Corlett. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 March 2020

• KK019-026191 Excavation - miscellaneous
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  No. 23 James Street is on the corner of James’s Street and Tilbury Place 20m NW of the site of St James's Gate on the town wall (KK019-026001-) of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Farrelly et al. 1993, 11; Munby and Tyler (Oxford Archaeology) 2003, 82-3). The plot is fronted by a three-storey Edwardian house (NIAH 12000035) with modern extensions to the rear. Two archaeological excavations have been carried out on the plot. Test excavations on the site by Paul Stevens (00E0730) identified medieval pits and deposits, a medieval well (KK 019-026194-), a smelting furnace (KK 019-026196-) and a burial (KK 019-026199-) (Stevens 2000, unpublished; 2002, 177-8; 2006, 47-66). A full excavation of the rear yard of the plot by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (07E0059) identified further medieval pits and deposits and two large stone-lined pits containing house clearance deposits of Victorian domestic pottery (Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished). Much of the archaeology was preserved in situ beneath the foundations of the new builds. See attached photograph. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026192 House - 17th century
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  3 Watergate Street, Kilkenny City, 30m S of the medieval Water Gate or Irishtown Gate on the Hightown town wall (KK019-026001-). There is a house at this location on Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny. The ground floor S gable of a probable 17th-century timber-frame house was uncovered here during a buildings archaeology assessment by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (10E0011) of a standing late 18th/early 19th-century house (NIAH 12000012) (Ó Drisceoil 2008; 2012; 2013). Removal of modern accretions on the S elevation of the party wall between Nos. 3 and 4 Watergate Street uncovered the S gable of a cagework house at No. 4 Watergate Street (dims. 7.5m E-W; H 3.05m), comprising a ‘scribed’, numbered, post-and-jointed rail of oak framing on dwarf-wall foundations. Grooves and mortises for original wattle panelling present on timbers, the wattle panelling having been replaced by Georgian hand-made brick infill. All of the timbers were squared by hand with broadaxe and pitsaw, so the timber surfaces preserve a valuable record of timber conversion toolmarks. Two other, probably related, timbers were also of this type and had been reused in the roof-space of the present building. An ash dowel from the rail was AMS radiocarbon dated to AD 1528–1955 (Poz–38957). Within this broad range, the years 1633–1683 produced the highest probability (48.8%) when calibrated, indicating a probable 17th-century date for the structure, which would also be in keeping with the timber technology. The scale of the structure and the nature of its timber-working would indicate it was a small artisan’s dwelling within an early modern townscape which was dominated by stone housing. The timber-frame gable was preserved in situ behind plasterboard. Subsequent archaeological monitoring of ground reduction in the interior of Nos. 2-3 Watergate (10E0011) uncovered a cobbled surface that formed the ground floor surfacing of the late Georgian -house on the ground floor and a blocked red-brick fireplace of similar age built into the N elevation of the N wall of No. 3 Watergate Street. It is likely that further elements of the timber-frame structure are present within the fabric of No. 4 Watergate Street, though this could not be verified as all of its walls are covered over with modern material. See attached photographs of timber details. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 22 October 2020

• KK019-026193 Building
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  To the rear of an early 19th-century house at 45 Parliament Street (NIAH 12000083) and immediately to the S of the 18th-century courthouse (NIAH 12000084), which incorporates the 15th-century urban tower house known as 'Grace's Castle' (KK 019-026093-) (Farrelly et al 1993, 76), test excavations by Brenda O’Meara (07E0843) uncovered the foundations of a boundary wall that separates the rear yard of No. 45 from a long narrow yard at the S of the courthouse (O’Meara 2008, unpublished; 2010, 261). This wall is constructed on a probable medieval stepped masonry foundation, which suggests it was the foundation of a medieval building (ibid.). A large stone-built N-S aligned culvert, of probable 18th-century date, truncates the foundation (ibid.). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026194 Well
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  No. 23 James Street is on the corner of James’s Street and Tilbury Place 20m NW of St James's Gate on the town wall (KK019-026001-) of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Farrelly et al 1993, 11; Munby and Tyler (Oxford Archaeology) 2003, 82-3). The plot is fronted by a three-storey Edwardian house (NIAH 12000035) with modern extensions to the rear. Two archaeological excavations have been carried out on the plot. As well as medieval pits and deposits (KK 019-026191-), a burial (KK 019-026199-) and a smelting furnace (KK 019-026196-), test excavations by Paul Stevens (00E0730) identified a circular well (diam. 1.06m) lined with mortared cobbles (Stevens 2000, unpublished report; 2002, 177-8; 2006, 52-4). The feature was excavated to a depth of 0.65m and its fills produced Kilkenny-type medieval pottery. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026195 House - 17th/18th century
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  A series of truncated masonry wall foundations were identified on the S side of Pennyfeather Lane during archaeological monitoring of the excavation of service trenches in Pennyfeather Lane and Sconce Lane by Patrick Neary (07E0533). The walls are probably associated with houses constructed on the lane in the early 18th century (Neary 2007, 262). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026196 Furnace
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  No. 23 James Street is on the corner of James’s Street and Tilbury Place 20m NW of the site of St James's Gate on the town wall (KK019-026001-) of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Farrelly et al. 1993, 11; Munby and Tyler (Oxford Archaeology) 2003, 82-3). The plot is fronted by a three-storey Edwardian house (NIAH 12000035) with modern extensions to the rear. Two archaeological excavations have been carried out on the plot. As well as medieval pits and deposits (KK 019-026191-), a well (KK 019-026194-) and a burial (KK 019-026199-), test excavations by Paul Stevens (00E0730) identified a smelting furnace possibly associated with the Cromwellian Siege of Kilkenny (Stevens 2000, unpublished). The furnace pit, which was partially sealed by the gable wall of the house, was oval in plan (diam. 3m; D 0.55m), with an adjoining linear flue (L ˃1.06m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.45m) (ibid.). The furnace cut an earlier, medieval rubbish pit and was lined with boulders and filled with intermittent layers of burnt soil and silty clay (ibid.). The entire feature was backfilled with clay and soot, rich in iron slag, which produced a single musket ball (ibid.). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026197 Forge
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  Site of the town or common forge of Kilkenny, probably located at 1-2 High Street which is presently occupied by late 18th/early 19th-century commercial buildings (NIAH 12001019 and 12001018). In 1508, Walter Courcy, sovereign of Kilkenny, granted the forge ‘by Crokker’s Corsse’ by the assent of the community to Nicholas oge faber on lease for 50 years rendering 4s per year (McNeill 1931, 117). Croker's Cross was located at the junction of the Parade and High Street and Rose Inn Street. In the Ormond Deeds, a 1518 indenture between Peter (Piers) Butler, Earl of Ormond and two burgesses refers to a ‘messuage with appurtenances...in length from the toll-house (tollenario) of the town on the north to the common smithy (fabricam communem) on the south, and in breadth from the main street (magne strata) of the town on the east to a small lane (vinellam) on the west’ for ten shillings per year (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 54). This allows the location of the forge to be precisely located at 1-2 High Street, to the S of the 'old Tholsel' (KK019-026045-). The forge is also referred to, but not directly located, in 14th-16th century documents (Rondelez 2016, 76). Excavations in advance of construction of the present multi-storey carpark and leisure centre on Ormonde Street by Judith Carroll (97E0468; Areas 1, 3, 5) included the plot to the rear of the site of the forge, which extended 130m W from Pudding Lane to the town wall (Carroll 2000, 121-3; 2002, unpublished). The excavation recorded a high density of evidence for medieval metalworking in the form of large smithing hearths, a smelting pit and dumps of metalworking waste, predominantly iron slag, in large pits (Rondelez 2016, 78-9). Excavations ceased at the formation level of the present multi-storey carpark development and significant archaeological features thus remain in situ below this level. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026198 Excavation - miscellaneous
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  An archaeological excavation (92E0067) was carried out by John Channing in 1992, in advance of the construction of a multi-storey car park. A series of pits containing medieval pottery were excavated within a burgage plot that probably originally stretched from the line of the western circuit of the town wall of the Hightown of Kilkenny to 1-3 Parliament Street, where a late 16th/early 17th-century house (KK019-026083-) is partially extant on the street frontage (Channing 1992, unpublished; 1993). John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny shows a series of walled plots and a tennis court running to the rear of this house and much of the area was subsequently occupied by the Sullivan's Brewery complex, which was in operation between 1810 and 1914, superseding an early 18th-century brewery (Bradley 2000, 18). Masonry belonging to some of the brewery buildings as well as archaeological strata were preserved in situ and incorporated into the development. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 28 March 2022

• KK019-026199 Burial
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  No. 23 James Street is on the corner of James’s Street and Tilbury Place 20m NW of the site of St James's Gate on the town wall (KK019-026001-) of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Farrelly et al 1993, 11; Munby and Tyler (Oxford Archaeology) 2003, 82-3). The plot is fronted by a three-storey Edwardian house (NIAH 12000035) with modern extensions to the rear. Two archaeological excavations have been carried out on the plot. As well as medieval pits and deposits (KK 019-026191-), a well (KK 019-026194-) and a furnace (KK 019-026196-), test excavations by Paul Stevens (00E0730) identified an isolated burial of a 3-6 year old child (Stevens 2000). The isolated burial, although substantially truncated by construction, was an extended child inhumation, orientated W to E within a shallow oval grave-cut (L 0.92m; Wth 0.46m; D 0.18m) (Stevens 2000). The burial was not complete and appeared to have been re-interred in antiquity (ibid.). The grave was backfilled with hard, redeposited natural that contained a tiny fragment of brick (ibid.). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026200 Burial
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  Isolated infant burial excavated in 2002-2003 (02E1715) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil beneath former rear yard and below ground level of cellar for late 18th-early 19th century houses and shops at 62-3 High Street, (NIAH 12000076 and 12000075) and 76 Kieran Street (NIAH 12000077), Kilkenny (Ó Drisceoil 2004, 276-7; 2005, 265-6; 2005, 43-61; 2012). Excavations on the site in 2002-2003 documented a series of attempts to reclaim land (KK 019-026----) in the flood-plain of the River Nore (Ó Drisceoil 2005, 50, 59-60). Once achieved, probably in the 13th century, the site was used as a rear-garden where activities such as iron smelting (KK019-026201-) and the burial of an infant occurred. The burial was represented by fragments of the infant's skull within a deposit of gravel reclamation make-up and it is possible it was a chance introduction rather than a formal burial. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026201 Furnace
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  Medieval furnace excavated in 2002-2003 (02E1715) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil beneath former rear yard and below ground level of cellar for late 18th/early 19th-century houses and shops at 62-3 High Street, (NIAH 12000076 and 12000075) and 76 Kieran Street (NIAH 12000077), Kilkenny (Ó Drisceoil 2004, 276-7; 2005, 265-6; 2005, 43-61; 2012, https://excavations.ie/report/2012/Kilkenny/0023413/ and unpublished report). Excavations on the site in 2002-2003 documented a series of attempts to reclaim land (KK 019-026----) in the flood-plain of the River Nore (Ó Drisceoil 2005, 43-61). One of the earliest reclamation deposits contained the partial remains of an infant skull (KK 019-026200-). Once reclamation had been achieved, probably in the 13th century, the site was used as a rear-garden for iron smelting, represented by a bowl furnace (0.6m diam.) containing 50g of iron slag and, adjacent to it, a dense layer of charcoal and ash, which probably also derived from the processing of metal on-site. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026202 Bridge
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  Bridge (NIAH 12000007) forming the crossing point between the medieval boroughs of Hightown (Watergate Street) and Irishtown (Irishtown Street) over the River Breagagh. A bridge to link the Irishtown and Hightown was in place from at least c.1207 and has been variously called ‘Irishtown bridge’ and ‘Watergate bridge’ (Farrelly et al 1993, 6; Bradley 2000, 21). An archaeological survey of the bridge undertaken by Ian Doyle as part of the investigations at the rear of No.1 Irishtown (02E1592) verified the historical accounts which indicated the present two-arch bridge is a construction of several phases (Doyle 2004). The core of the bridge appears to be of 16th-century date, probably corresponding to the Corporation of Irishtown’s intention in 1568 to ‘repair and build the bridge and Town Wall adjoining’ (Ainsworth 1978, 33). This bridge was subsequently expanded on the downstream side in the later 18th century and again by 5.7m in 1799. Upstream of the bridge is a ‘freestanding arch’ which is keyed into the late medieval riverside wall KK 019-026001- on the south side of the River Breagagh. Prior to the Kilkenny flood relief scheme a high wall (H 6m) was supported on the bridge-arch; this formed the W wall of a building that overshot the river and was taken down in 2003. Given the fact that the arch is of late medieval date and lines up with the Irishtown street-frontage, it would appear that the alignment of Watergate Street changed following the widening and bridge modifications in the 18th century. This left the arch redundant and its carriageway was subsequently removed. The remains of the gatehouse probably survive under the 18th-century house fronting No. 6 Watergate Street to the W of the S end of the standing bridge. The 15th/16th-century stretch of town wall, recorded during archaeological investigations at No. 6 Watergate Street, on the S bank of the river Breagagh carried out by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (07E0366), was probably contemporary with the bridge and gatehouse (Ó Drisceoil 2007, unpublished; 2010, unpublished; 2010, 263). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• KK019-026203 Excavation - miscellaneous
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  Medieval timber-lined cess pits, timber fence-lines for burgage plots excavated by Maedbh Saunderson (08E0462) at the rear of the 18th-century Kilkenny Courthouse (NIAH 12000084), Parliament Street, Kilkenny (Saunderson 2008, unpublished; 2010, 257-8). The courthouse is built on the site of the 15th-century urban tower house known as Grace’s Castle (KK019-026093-) and in the area of the medieval Hightown of Kilkenny that expanded between James's Street and the river Breagagh after 1207 (Farrelly et al. 1993, 76). The 15th-century urban tower house known as Grace’s Castle is incorporated into the present 18th-century Kilkenny Courthouse (NIAH 12000084), Parliament Street, Kilkenny. In the 13th century, William le Gros built a castle here, which became known as 'Grace's Castle' (O'Carroll 1983, 32). In 1566, it was yielded to the Crown for use as a 'Sheire Gaol' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 69-70). It seems to have served this function until c. 1794, when it was probably rebuilt as a courthouse. The excavated area was to the rear E of the courthouse and encompassed the centre of a series of E-W aligned burgage plots with associated boundary and drainage ditches, pits and cesspits, several of which were timber-lined. As a result of waterlogging, preservation on the site was exceptionally good and over 500 pieces of worked wood of medieval date were recovered. A previously unknown streambed, identified running along the N boundary of the excavated area, represented the earliest phase of activity. This natural feature may have formed the original boundary between the lands of the Franciscan Abbey (KK019-026101-) to the N of the site and the immediate holdings of Grace’s Castle (KK019-026093-). A probable prehistoric stone axe was recovered from the base of the streambed. Four phases of medieval activity, dating from the 13th to 16th centuries were recorded. These phases were characterised by a series of N-S and E-W aligned ditches for burgage plots, with associated pits and cesspits. Several of the E-W aligned ditches contained lines of timber posts and stakes, the remains of fence lines for the plots. Each phase was sealed by distinctive inundation or make-up deposits, into which the features of the succeeding phase were dug. The earliest features were cut into several silty deposits which represent evidence for the flooding of the site by the River Nore, which presently lies 200m to the east. Several of the pits were lined with timber and some were lined with reused oak shingles. One shingle-lined pit produced a toy wooden sword. An abundance of archaeobotanical remains were present in the pits and one was filled with cherry stones (Lyons 2015, 43). A single isolated human burial (KK019-026204-), with distinctive ‘ear-muff’ stones on either side of the skull, was excavated in the NW corner of the site was associated with the third stratigraphic phase of medieval activity (precise date unknown). Seventeenth to 19th century burials (KK019-026205-) associated with the use of the site as the County Jail and courthouse were buried in post medieval deposits which sealed the medieval stratigraphy. Areas in the SE and SW of the site remain unexcavated and probably contain archaeology of similar nature and density. See attached photographs: KK019-026203-_01 Timber-lined cesspit KK019-026203-_02 General view of the northern portion of the excavation, looking NE Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026204 Burial
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  Isolated medieval burial excavated by Maedbh Saunderson (08E0462) at the rear of the 18th-century Kilkenny Courthouse (NIAH 12000084), Parliament Street, Kilkenny (Saunderson 2008; 2010). An earlier caslte (KK019-026093-) is probably incorporated into the present 18th-century courthouse (Farrelly et al. 1993, 76). In the 13th century, William le Gros built a castle here, which became known as 'Grace's Castle' (O'Carroll 1983). In 1566, it was yielded to the Crown for use as a 'Sheire Gaol' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 69-70). It seems to have served this function until c. 1794, when it was probably rebuilt as a courthouse (ibid.). The excavated area was to the rear E of the courthouse and encompassed the centre of a series of E-W aligned burgage plots with associated boundary and drainage ditches, pits and cesspits, several of which were timber-lined (KK 019-026203-). The burial was found in the NW of the excavation site, S of a streambed identified running along the N boundary of the excavated area. It was associated with the third phase of medieval activity identified on the site and was orientated E-W in a supine extended position, with characteristically medieval ‘ear-muff’ stones visible supporting the sides of the skull (Saunderson 2008, unpublished). The burial was fully excavated. See attached plan of the burial. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026205 Burial ground
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  Twenty-two human burials excavated by Maedbh Saunderson (08E0462) at the rear of the 18th-century Kilkenny Courthouse (NIAH 12000084), Parliament Street, Kilkenny (Saunderson 2008, unpublished; 2010, 257-8). An earlier castle (KK019-026093-) is probably incorporated into the present 18th-century courthouse (Farrelly et al. 1993, 76). In the 13th century, William le Gros built a castle here, which became known as 'Grace's Castle' (O'Carroll 1983). In 1566, it was yielded to the Crown for use as a 'Sheire Gaol' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 69-70). It seems to have served this function until c. 1794, when it was probably rebuilt as a courthouse (ibid.). The excavated area was to the E of the tower house and encompassed the centre of a series of E-W aligned burgage plots with associated boundary and drainage ditches, pits and cesspits, several of which were timber-lined (KK019-026203-). The 22 burials, representing a minimum of 30 individuals, were provisionally dated to the 18th/19th century, when the area was a yard to the rear of the County Jail and Courthouse (Farrelly et al. 1993, 76). Five of the burials were buried simultaneously and were aligned N-S. Two military buttons found with one of this group carried the insignia of the 17th Royal Regiment of the Meath Militia, which was stationed in Kilkenny from July 28th to August 8th 1798 (Saunderson 2008). All of the exposed burials were fully excavated. It is probable that the unexcavated areas at the SE and SW of the site contains further burials. See attached photograph. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026209 Excavation - miscellaneous
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  Medieval stone-lined pit uncovered in archaeological test-excavations (07E0910) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil in the rear plot of No. 21 High Street, Kilkenny (Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; 2010, 254). The site is situated within the walls of the Hightown of Kilkenny, on the chief thoroughfare of the Anglo-Norman town and 70m SW of the site of the Market Cross of Kilkenny, which formerly stood near the Tholsel (KK019-026061-). The present building at 21 High Street (NIAH 12000055) was constructed in 1819 as a Glebe House for the parish church of St Mary's (KK019-026115-) via a grant from the Board of First Fruits, and it incorporates the shell of a three-storey over basement Elizabeth/Jacobean merchant house (KK019-026051-), which was itself heavily-modified in the Georgian era (Farrelly et al. 1993, 42; Murtagh 1999, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; 2010, 254). The early modern house may have formed the inner house of a building complex, the original front house having been on the High Street frontage. Elizabethan/Jacobean features in the rear wall of the building include the remains of a three-light window of dressed limestone, the jamb stone of another window and a projecting chimney flue (Farrelly et al. 1993, 42). Thirty metres W of the rear of the building a large rectangular stone-lined pit/well (int. dims. 1.75 N-S x > 3m E-W; D > 0.8m) with battered sides was uncovered in the test-excavations (07E0910). An 0.8m deep sondage excavated into its silt and mortar backfill yielded Kilkenny-type and Saintonge pottery and a locally-produced roof ridge-crest, indicating its infilling occurred in the 13th/14th century. The feature was situated adjacent to five quarry/refuse pits that cut into the natural yellow boulder clay and directly inside (to S of) the foundations of the medieval northern burgage wall of the plot. The subsoil-cut and the stone-lined pit underlay garden soils (D 1.6-2m) that were probably introduced for orchards in the early modern period. Foundations for a coach-house marked on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map were also noted to E of the stone-lined pit. All of the archaeological features were preserved in situ. See attached photograph of excavation. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026210 Building
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  Archaeological excavations (96E0047) were carried out by Martin Reid for the Kilkenny Main Drainage Scheme in 1996 (Reid 1996, 65-7, unpublished; 1997). The foundations (0.85m Wth) of a rectangular (5.5m NW-SE, 2.5m NE-SW) medieval building with associated deposits containing medieval pottery were uncovered. The building was truncated by the 18th-century walls of a millrace that extends from the River Breagagh into the former precinct of the Franciscan friary (KK019-026101-). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 29 March 2022

• KK019-026212 Excavation - miscellaneous
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  Several possible post-holes and shallow linear features, sealed by a deposit of garden soil of uncertain date, were recorded by Leigh Barker during archaeological test excavations (08E0031) to the rear of a modern building at the corner of Pudding Lane and Pennyfeather Lane, Kilkenny (Barker 2011). The features are located in a former NE-SW aligned burgage plot that is depicted on the 1758 John Rocque map of Kilkenny. Similar features were recorded in burgage plots to the SE excavated by Judith Carroll (97E0468) (Carroll 2000, 121-3). The possible post-holes and linear features were preserved in situ. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026215 House - medieval
  Description

  In 1383-84 the abbot of the Cistercian Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh ‘Abbas de Dowysky’ is listed as a burgess of Kilkenny, indicating he had a property in the town (Curtis 1931, no. 62). This site can be equated with what was to become the Rothe family house, Parliament Street (KK019-026085-) in the later 1500s, via a reference in a 1594 deed of Patrick Grante, Waterford, to the tenth Earl of Ormond: ‘Two shillings yearly rent out of a messuage and garden in said town where John Rothe fitz Piers dwells, parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Dowske’ (Curtis 1943, no. 89). Very little is known about the townhouse of the Cistercian abbot as most of it appears to have been swept away when the Rothe complex was constructed 1594-1610, but some features that may be associated of it have been uncovered in excavations. A stone-lined cesspit, which yielded early to mid-14th-century pottery (Saintonge Sgraffitto), as well as 13th/14th-century Kilkenny-type and Leinster Cooking Ware, and archaeobotanical remains, was recorded during an archaeological excavation (09E0572) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil in the present yard to the rear (W) of the third (westernmost) house in the Rothe complex (Ó Drisceoil 2010, unpublished; 2013, 137-8). The NW corner (the N and W walls) of the pit (int. dims. 1.2m N-S x 0.8m E-W; D 1.05m) was exposed in the excavation. The walls of the pit were battered and bonded with lime-mortar. Twelve individual deposits were excavated within the cesspit, arranged in alternating layers of cess and ‘damping’ deposits of stone/sandy clays. The cesspit pre-dates the building of the Rothe House complex 1594-1610 and was probably constructed when the burgage plot on which it stands was in the possession of the abbot of the Cistercian Duiske Abbey. The backfilled cesspit was covered by a 17th-century N-S wall which divided the yard. The cesspit remains in situ. Cobbling that was probably broadly contemporary with the excavated cesspit was also uncovered in excavations (92E0123) in the House 3 yard by Neil O'Flanagan (O'Flanagan 1994, 49; 1994, unpublished). A cutting between the E wall of the early 17th-century third (westernmost) house and a well, constructed in 1604 on the S side of the middle courtyard of the complex, demonstrated that this 17th-century well had been built over one half of a pre-existing, much larger, rectangular well of medieval date (ibid.). Partial excavation of its infill to a depth of 1.4m (not bottomed) yielded household waste, 13th/14th-century Saintonge, Rouen/Caen and Kilkenny-type pottery, iron nails, hooks, metal slag and animal bones, indicating it predated the construction of the Rothe House complex and was probably related to the Cistercian period of occupancy. An E-W running stone culvert, which had been blocked and built over by the rear (W) wall of the first house when it was built in 1594, may also be related to this period (Ó Drisceoil 2011, 213-14), as can a fragment of an E-W running wall (0.6m Wth.) found beneath the footings of the W wall of House 2 and two large pits which had been built over by the early 17th-century link building ('outscale') on the N side of the middle courtyard (ibid.). Pits that predated House 3 may also belong to this phase in the site's history (Halpin 1991). In the rear garden, the backlands of the medieval burgage plot that ran up to the town wall in the W, excavations documented medieval refuse pits, remnant horticultural soils, a burgage fence and a stone-lined well (< 7.5m D. x 1m int. diam.), its construction dated by associated ceramics to the 13th/14th centuries (Ó Drisceoil 2008, 34-47). See attached: KK019-026215-_01 Plan of excavation KK019-026215_02 Photographic overview of excavation Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of revised upload: 30 March 2022

• KK019-026226 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On St. Kieran's Street within the walled Hightown of Kilkenny City. Wall foundations (L 4m E-W; Wth 0.6m) corresponding to the E part of a house shown on the 1758 map of Kilkenny by John Rocque. Uncovered in archaeological monitoring (12E0222) by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil immediately to the S of the medieval house known as Kyteler's Inn (KK019-026111-) and incorporating a probable medieval slip that formerly ran to its S (O'Cochlain 1968; Farrelly et al 1993, 92; Tobin and Coughlan 2012; Ó Drisceoil 2014). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 5 November 2020

• KK019-026240 Weir - fish
  Description

  A post and wattle structure, probably a fishtrap, excavated by Ian Doyle as part of the Kilkenny Flood Relief scheme on the W bank of the Nore directly underneath the existing John's Bridge (NIAH 12000229) and adjacent an abutment of the preceding 1772 bridge (KK019-026070-) (Doyle 2004, 28-9; 2006, 271-2). Two collapsed post-and-wattle fences, probably representing a N-S orientated V-shaped fishtrap (estimated total dims. L 4.8m x W 1m), were exposed and excavated. Two timber samples from the structure produced radiocarbon dates of 755-400 BC and 755-403 BC. The structure continued beneath the W bank. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• KK019-026244 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  At the rear of 73 High Street and 36-7 St Kieran's Street there are the remains of late 16th/early 17th century building, only a small portion of the S wall (L c. 2m) of which is visible in the N wall of the yard of 38 St Kieran's Street. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and within it there is a flat-headed blocked-up window, which is slightly longer than the width. The window has cut limestone surrounds but is not chamfered externally. More fabric of this early modern building is likely to be incorporated in the building which currently occupies 73 High St and extends back to 36-7 St Kieran's St. See attached photograph: KK019-026244-_01 by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 August 2022

• KK019-026246 House - medieval
  Description

  Medieval stone structure, possibly part of a house, and reclamation make-up deposits identified in excavations (97E0334 and 98E0168) at 10-13 Kieran Street, within the SE of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Ó Baoill 1998. 105-6; O'Flanagan 1998, unpublished; Opie 2000, 117). Two pits and a well (KK019-026247-) were also found in the excavation. Deep reclamation deposits preserved in situ underneath the E side of a large shopping outlet, occupied by Dunnes Stores. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 16 November 2020

• KK019-026247 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Two pits and a well identified in excavations (97E0334 and 98E0168) at 10-13 Kieran Street, within the SE of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Ó Baoill 1998. 105-6; O'Flanagan 1998, unpublished; Opie 2000, 117). Associated with a medieval stone structure (KK019-026246-), possibly part of a house, and reclamation make-up deposits. Further deep reclamation deposits preserved in situ underneath E side of existing Dunnes Stores building. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 16 November 2020

• KK019-026248 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Fragment of possible medieval building identified in test-excavations (97E0185) by Martin Reid at 20-25 Collier's Lane, 50m NW of the Tholsel (KK019-026061-), in the centre of the Hightown of Kilkenny (Reid 1997, unpublished; 1998, 100). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 16 November 2020

• KK019-026249 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  Armorial plaque of Richard Shee, currently on the E gable of the Shee Alms House (KK019-026100-) fronting onto Rose Inn Street. The plaque was inserted into a niche N of the two-light window at first-floor level during restoration works carried out between 1978 and 1980. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 225) records the plaque at the medieval church at Sheastown (KK024-001001-) c. 1900 and gives the inscription as: INSIGNIA RICHARDI SHEE MILITIS QVI HOC OPVS FECIT AO D 1578. This translates as, 'The arms of Richard Shee, Knight, who made this work in the Year of Our Lord 1578' (Crotty 2009, 195). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 225) contends that, 'This slab does not seem to have belonged originally to the church. It was probably brought here from Sir Richard Shee's castle of Bonnetstown [KK019-003001-], or from his house in Kilkenny'. Crotty (2009, 195) notes that Richard Shee was only knighted in 1589 and thus suggests that the plaque could not have been made as early as 1578. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 March 2023

• KK019-026250 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Possible urban tower house to rear of Nos. 25-6 High Street (NIAH 12000047 and 12000046), between Guard Lane and Poyntz Lane. Its foundations and a substantial ( > 2m deep) battered masonry wall were recorded running along the S side of Poyntz Lane in pre-development test excavations (97E0309) carried out by Martin Reid (Reid 1997 unpublished; 1998, 100-101). The building probably originally fronted onto High Street and the mid-18th-century buildings of 25 and 26 High Street may incorporate fabric belonging to the structure. The identified medieval wall was partially demolished but what remains was preserved in situ below the formation level for an apartment development. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026254 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the rear of Kyteler’s Inn, uncovered during archaeological excavations carried out during the restoration of Kyteler’s Inn. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 103) relates how St Kieran’s Well, ‘appears in ancient documents as “Keverocke’s Well’ or Keurocke’s Well, “Kenerock’s Well,” “Kerock’s Well” and “Kyran’s Well.” Its original Irish name was evidently, Tobar-Chiaróg, which is exactly the same thing as Tobar-Chiarain, viz. St. Kieran’s Well. This well was the southern boundary of the Diocesan See-lands at Kilkenny, till the time of Bishop Hugh de Rous, who granted to Earl William Marshall’. The grant, dated 31st of December 1269, states that, ‘Hugh Rufus, formerly Bishop of Ossory, and his successors, were wont yearly to receive an ounce of gold, sometimes from the provostship of Kilkenny by the hands of the provosts there, and sometimes from the exchequer of the castle of Kilkenny by the hands of the treasurer and bailiffs of the castle, for a portion of land extending from Keverocke’s well to the water called Bregath’ running under Coterel bridge. The said Bishop Hugh had granted this land in fee for this gold to William Earl Marshall to enlarge his vill [town]’ (Sweetman 1877, 140 (861)). Hogan (1884, 254) cites several historical references to St Kieran’s Well, including in 1688, when William Jackson was mentioned as ‘tenant at 10s. per annum for “a waster in St. Kyran’s Well.”’, in 1745, ‘a lease was executed to Nicholas Ronan, for thirty-one years, at £1 5s. per annum, of “St. Kyran’s Well.” And so late as the year 1811 a lease was made by the Corporation to Nathaniel Alcock, for ever, at 6d. per annum, of “St. Kyran’s Well.” One of the conditions on which this ground was made over to Alcock bound him to establish on it a public fish market. This market or fish-stall came down to our own time. It occupied part of the present public market [between the Dunnes Stores car park and St Kieran’s Street], which forms the opening into King-street [St Kieran’s Street], which enables us to fix on that locality as being identical with the place anciently called “St. Kyran’s Well.”’.   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK019-026255 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Pits excavated in a series of former burgage plots that extended 130m W from the rear of 30-33 Lower Patrick Street to the town wall. No. 30 Lower Patrick Street incorporates medieval architectural features (KK019-026097-) and the present early 19th-century houses at 31-2 High Street (NIAH 12001022 and 12001021) may also contain fabric of similar age. The houses are traditionally associated with the Rothes, one of the ruling families of the medieval/early modern town. John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny depicts three walled burgage plots extending from the rear of substantial house-complexes at 30-33 Lower Patrick Street. Excavations by Judith Carroll (97E0468, Areas 2, 6) in the rear burgage plot in advance of the development of the present Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel and an extension to the rear (W) of the Hibernian Hotel (97E0468 Area 6 and 98E0402) (Carroll 1999, unpublished; 2000, 118-20; 2000, 120-21; 2000, 121-3; 2002, unpublished) uncovered a palisade trench running NNW-SSE that defined a roughly rectangular area extending 40m E-W from the town wall and 40m N-S, as well as a series of substantial fosses, pits and linear fosses of medieval date, as well as post-medieval pits. The excavator suggested the NNW stretch of the palisade trench may have acted to define the rear (W) of the medieval burgage plots that ran off of Lower Patrick Street, with the area between it and the town wall being open commonage (Carroll 2002, unpublished, 36). A pair of post-medieval pits (D < 2m) were also excavated and a circular stone-built well, a rectangular stone-built pit feature, metalled surfaces and wall foundations were sealed beneath a thick layer (D 0.5-0.75m) of imported horticultural soil. On the SE of the site archaeological layers were exposed but were preserved in situ beneath a layer of geo-textile. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

• KK019-026258 Font
  Description

  Formerly in St Mary's church in Kilkenny city (Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2005, vol. 1, 17-18). Currently in St. John's C of I Cathedral (see TS061-025101-), at the NE end of the nave, immediately S of the chancel.  This square limestone font (dims 0.71m x 0.71m; H 0.43m) is chamfered at the angles and around the base. The bowl (diam. 0.58m; D 0.2m) is circular and straight-sided with a flat-bottomed base with a shallow circular depression (diam. 0.16m) around the central drainage hole (diam. 0.05m). Each of the external faces of the font is decorated in relief with eleven round-headed flutes. The pedestal on which the fonts stands is modern and consists of five circular limestone columns. The columns rest on the upper dexter portion of a reused graveslab (TS061-025102- and KK019-026259-) which was originally larger but has been machine cut to form its present shape. The 15th-century font (TS043-034010-) at Kilcooley Abbey has similar fluting on one side. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK019-026259 Graveslab
  Description

  Formerly in St Mary's church in Kilkenny city (see KK019-026259-) (Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2005, vol. 1, 17-18). Currently in St. John's C of I Cathedral (see TS061-025102-), at the NE end of the nave, immediately S of the chancel.  A graveslab reused as the pedestal for a medieval font (TS061-025101- and KK019-026258-). The pedestal consists of the upper dexter portion (dims 0.88m x 0.88m; H 0.21m) of a reused limestone graveslab. This graveslab was originally much larger, but has been machine cut along the sinister side and base to form its present square shape. It is bears an incised latin inscription 'Hic jacet N…' in lombardic script. This translates as: Here lies N…. .   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK019-026262 Riverine revetment
  Description

  Probable riverine revetment fence partially excavated by Claire Cotter (06E0712) and Denis Shine (06E0712 ext.) at 44-8 Kieran Street, within the Hightown of Kilkenny and 20m NE of St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) (Clutterbuck 2009, 275; Cotter 2009, 275-7; Cotter and Shine 2010, 14; Shine 2011, 210-12). The earliest features identified in the excavation comprised a series of SE-NW orientated post-holes, stake-holes and two slot-trenches (L 3.9m and 3.2m) that cut into the glacial boulder clay and were sealed beneath a post-medieval wall and a cobbled road of probable 13th/14th-century date. The features were interpreted as representing the original river defences of the W bank of the River Nore, prior to its reclamation and the construction of St Kieran Street in the 13th century (Cotter 2009, 276; Cotter and Shine 2010, 14; Ó Drisceoil 2003). They may also represent an early boundary for the NE precinct of St Mary's church as medieval burials, part of the graveyard (KK019-026156-) of St Mary's, were excavated directly to its W (Shine 2011). The fence was only partially excavated and further remains are likely to extend to the NW and SE of the excavation site. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

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Architectural heritage

• Saint Francis's Abbey Brewery, building misc, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Gothic-style building, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of medieval abbey, founded 1231-4, with two-bay single-storey recessed lower entrance bay to left. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone quoins to corners. Paired round-headed window openings with cut-limestone flush sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded panels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled door. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, c.1775, probably originally two separate single-bay three-storey (north) and two-bay three-storey (south) houses. Extensively renovated, c.1925. Part refenestrated. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (in bipartite arrangement to left first floor) with cut-stone sills (no sills to ground floor), replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, having two-over-two timber sash window to right top floor, and replacement uPVC casement windows to ground floor. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled door having replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975, to left ground floor. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1975–1985 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, redeveloped post-1977, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1900, on site with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows (incorporating camber-headed upper lights) having cast-iron crested sill guards. Shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows having glazed timber screens behind, timber panelled double doors, fascia over with decorative consoles, raised lettering, and moulded cornice having cast-iron cresting. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1875, with shopfront to ground floor. Reroofed and part refenestrated. Now disused to ground floor. Pitched roof (gabled to dormer attic windows) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, pierced bargeboards to gables, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having replacement uPVC casement windows to dormer attic. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with fluted engaged columns, fixed-pane (four-light) display window having glazed timber screen behind, glazed timber door having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, fascia with fluted consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1825, originally two separate two-bay two-storey houses possibly incorporating fabric of medieval range, pre-1700. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with some openings to ground floor remodelled possibly to accommodate commercial use. Refenestrated, c.2000. Now disused. Pitched roof (possibly remodelled, c.1950, to accommodate present profile; gabled to dormer attic window) with replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, rendered coping to party wall, rooflight, c.2000, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (part overhanging). Painted cement rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation over random rubble stone construction having sections of red brick irregular bond construction with limewashed (whitewashed) wall to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings (remodelled to ground floor, c.1950) with stone sills (no sills to remodelled openings), and replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000. Square-headed door openings with glazed timber panelled and replacement glazed uPVC panelled doors, c.2000. Interior with sections of stone flagging to ground floor, tongue-and-groove timber panelled counter, timber staircase having remains of timber balustrade, timber floors to first floor, and one painted chimneypiece, c.1900. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800. Extensively renovated, with replacement pubfront inserted to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier pubfront, c.1900. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered and red brick Running bond chimney stacks, rendered coping, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered bas-relief surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Replacement pubfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier pubfront, c.1900, with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane timber windows having casement overlights, timber panelled double doors with overlight, and fascia having consoles supporting cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825, possibly originally with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with pubfront inserted to ground floor and rendered façade enrichments added. Refenestrated. 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 rendered façade enrichments, c.1900, including panelled piers to ends, and stringcourse to top floor on consoles. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills (forming part of stringcourse to top floor), moulded rendered surrounds, c.1900, having entablatures to first floor on consoles, and replacement timber casement windows. Pubfront, c.1900, to ground floor with half-inscribed pilasters, fixed-pane timber window, timber panelled doors having overlights, fascia with decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• John Cleere, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with vermiculated strips to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, replacement one-over-one (first floor) and two-over-two (top floor) flush timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber pubfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) windows, timber panelled double doors having overlight, and fascia with cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house, c.1825, possibly originally two separate two-bay three-storey houses. Renovated, c.1900, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Part refenestrated, c.1975. Pitched slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends having vermiculated panels. Square-headed window openings (in bipartite arrangement to first floor) with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having keystones to first floor, and two-over-two timber sash windows having replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, to top floor. Pubfront, c.1900, to ground floor with fixed-pane timber windows on panelled stall risers, timber panelled double doors, fascia over having decorative consoles, moulded cornice, and iron cresting. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front having rounded cut-stone wheelguard to corner.

• Ó Riada, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1900, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds to first floor, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Timber pubfront, c.1900, to ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane timber window on panelled stall riser, timber panelled double doors having overpanel (clay-tiled threshold leading to glazed timber panelled double internal doors in carved timber surround having decorative pediment, and fixed-pane sidelights on panelled risers), and panelled fascia having moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Office, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey red brick office building, built 1903, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on carved (moulded) cut-limestone eaves having consoles. Red brick Running bond walls with cut-limestone shield plaques to first floor. Round-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (rising to centre) with chamfered reveals, moulded capitals to spring of arches, red brick voussoirs, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Shopfront to ground floor with red brick piers incorporating cut-limestone course having chamfered reveals, fixed-pane (two-light) timber window on cut-stone riser having profiled mullions, timber panelled door having overlight, and cut-limestone fascia over on stringcourse having moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Parliament House, office, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey red brick office building, built 1903, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with terracotta ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to ends, stringcourses to each floor, and moulded cornice to parapet on consoles. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills forming stringcourse, bull-nose reveals, red brick voussoirs, and one-over-one timber sash windows having wrought iron guards to top floor. Limestone ashlar shopfront to ground floor with rusticated piers, fixed-pane (two-light) timber windows on stall risers having profiled mullions, timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door with overlight, and inscribed fascia on stringcourse having moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800, probably incorporating fabric of earlier range, c.1600, on site. Extensively renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, rendered coping, rooflight now missing, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted red brick Flemish bond walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Replacement shopfront to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with inscribed pilasters flanking marble-clad frontage having fixed-pane windows, glazed timber door, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1800, probably incorporating fabric of earlier range, c.1600, on site. Renovated and part refenestrated, c.1950, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950, to first floor. Timber shopfront, c.1950, to ground floor with fixed-pane (two-light) timber display window, timber panelled door on two cut-limestone steps, and fascia over having cornice. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800, probably incorporating fabric of earlier range, c.1600, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and dormer attic added. Pitched (cranked) slate roof with clay ridge tiles (rolled lead ridge to crank), rendered chimney stack, flat lined roof, c.1900, to dormer attic window, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with full-height chamfer to left. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, having timber casement window to dormer attic. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (four-light) timber display window on panelled stall riser, timber panelled door having overlight, fascia having consoles, and dentilated moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1715–1735 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1725. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and dormer attic added. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1900, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, flat felt roofs, c.1900, to dormer attic windows, 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 two-over-two (dormer attic) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with pilasters, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, and fascia over on decorative stops having cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1715–1735 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1725, with camber-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and rendered façade enrichments added. Reroofed with dormer attic added. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with vermiculated quoins, c.1900, to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, fluted/reeded pilaster surrounds, c.1900, having consoles supporting broken entablatures, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Camber-headed carriageway to right ground floor with no fittings. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) display window, glazed timber panelled door having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, and fascia with moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Rothe House, house, 1590–1615 · National interest
  Description

  Town house complex, built 1594-1610, comprising: (i) Terraced five-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic on a U-shaped plan about a stone cobbled (east) courtyard with two-bay two-storey gabled central bay having jettied box oriel window to first floor, series of five round-headed openings to ground floor forming arcade, single-bay three-storey linking range to north-west, and three-bay three-storey parallel range to west (completing U-shaped plan about a courtyard) originally three-bay two-storey having round-headed carriageway to right ground floor. In use as school, c.1750. Restored, 1898, to accommodate use as Gaelic League house. Converted to use as museum, 1963-5. Restored, 1983. Restored, 1999, to accommodate use as offices. Pitched slate roof on a U-shaped plan (gabled to central bay) behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cut-limestone octagonal chimney stacks to apexes, and concealed rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls (originally rendered with render removed, post-1965) with cut-limestone heraldic date stones/plaques, and cut-stone stringcourse supporting parapet having cut-stone coping. Square-headed window openings (including to box oriel window) with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions forming tripartite camber-headed arrangement (bipartite arrangement to dormer attic and to ranges to west with some having square-headed openings to ground floor), hood mouldings over with some having red and yellow brick segmental relieving arches over, and leaded fittings to range to east having replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 1898, to ranges to west. Series of five round-headed openings to ground floor forming arcade with cut-stone panelled piers on pedestals having springcourses over, and some having fixed-pane display windows, 1983. Round-headed door opening to basement with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, 1983. Square-headed door opening to linking bay to north-west with red brick surrounds, cut-limestone lintel, red brick segmental relieving arch over, and timber panelled door. Round-headed door opening to parallel range to west with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, timber panelled door, diamond window opening over (forming overlight) with cut-limestone surround, and fixed-pane timber fittings. Round-headed carriageway to right ground floor to parallel range to west with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and iron double gates. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front having cut-stone parapets flanking flight of tooled cut-limestone steps leading to basement level. (ii) Attached four-bay single-storey lean-to outbuilding range to west framing stone cobbled (west) courtyard with round-headed carriageway. Lean-to (mono-pitched) slate roof with iron flue, and no rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed slit-style window openings with cut-limestone surrounds, and fittings not discernible. Square-headed door openings with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled doors. Round-headed carriageway with cut-limestone surround, and fittings not discernible. (iii) Detached five-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic to west enclosing stone cobbled (west) courtyard with single-bay two-storey gabled central bay. Renovated, 1999, to accommodate use as offices. Pitched slate roof (gabled to central bay) behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rubble stone squat chimney stacks, and concealed rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone heraldic date stone/plaque, and cut-stone coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions forming bipartite or tripartite arrangements, and leaded timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening with cut-stone surround, and timber panelled door. (iv) Well, dated 1604, to west in cut-limestone gabled surround having square-headed door opening with wrought iron railings, and inscribed panel to gable.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1750. In use as inn, c.1750. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chimney stack removed, rooflights, slightly sproketed eaves, and iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered stringcourse to first floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills forming part of sill course, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with inscribed pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber door on two cut-limestone steps having wrought iron railings, and fascia over. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey house, c.1800. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends having paired consoles supporting eaves. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1950. Shopfront, c.1950, to ground floor with textured concrete piers, fixed-pane display windows, timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, and fascia. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay four-storey house, c.1825, probably originally forming part of larger four-bay four-storey composition with building to south. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered stringcourses to each floor. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills forming sill courses, moulded rendered surrounds (no surround to top floor), one-over-one (first floor) and two-over-two (remainder) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor with inscribed pilasters, fixed-pane display window, timber panelled door, fascia having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey house, c.1825, possibly originally forming part of larger four-bay four-storey composition with building to north. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered stringcourses to each floor. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills forming sill courses, moulded rendered surrounds (no surrounds to top floor), two-over-two (second floor) and one-over-one (remainder) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows having decorative details to corners, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, fascia having decorative consoles, and cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Extensively renovated, 1908, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in commercial use to upper floors. Roof not visible. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends having vermiculated panels, and rendered swept band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (in bipartite arrangement to first floor) with stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having keystone to first floor, replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 1908, to first floor, and timber casement window to top floor. Timber shopfront, 1908, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows on panelled stall risers having colonettes, glazed timber panelled door having mosaic-tiled threshold, overlight, fascia having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1850, on a corner site with three-bay three-storey side (south) elevation. In use as Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, pre-1846-c.1900. Subsequently in use as bank, c.1900. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfronts inserted to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfronts, c.1900. Now in use as hotel. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan (forming hip to corner) with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with chamfer to corner to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (blind to central bay to front (east) elevation) with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered lugged surrounds, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Group of four shopfronts, c.1975, to ground floor (paired to each elevation) possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfronts, c.1900, with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber doors having overlights, fascias having inscribed consoles, and wrap-around shared fascia over having moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Saint Mary's, house, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1775. Refenestrated. Now in use as guesthouse. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening with timber pilaster doorcase, and glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road with painted rendered boundary wall to front having rendered coping, iron railings over, and open work iron piers having iron gate.

• Market Cross House, house, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1775. Refenestrated. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening with timber pilaster doorcase, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road with painted rendered boundary wall to front having rendered coping, iron railings over, and open work iron piers having iron gate.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, c.1775, on a corner site. Extensively renovated, 2000. Now in use as offices. One of a group of three. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, 2000, clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2000, on replacement timber eaves, 2000. Unpainted replacement roughcast walls, 2000. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 2000. Round-headed door opening with timber pilaster doorcase, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Set back from line of road on a corner site with rendered boundary wall to front having rendered coping, and iron railings over.

• The Maltings, malt house, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay three-storey over basement malt house, built 1810, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier malt house, pre-1656, with segmental-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Subsequently in use as brewery, post-1917. Decommissioned, post-1977. Undergoing extensive renovation, 2003-4, to accommodate proposed use as apartments. Pitched roof (gablet to one window opening to top floor) with replacement slate, 2004, clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2004, on rendered eaves. Random squared rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone quoins to corners. Camber-headed window openings (one square-headed window opening to top floor extending into roof) with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows, 2004. Segmental-headed carriageway to right ground floor with red brick block-and-start surround supporting red brick voussoirs. Interior deconstructed, 2003-4, with internal floors removed. Road fronted.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of gate screen, c.1875, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with stringcourses, pyramidal capping, and sections of cast-iron railings on limestone ashlar plinth having cross finials. Road fronted.

• Mausoleum, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-stage mausoleum, c.1825, with single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bays. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Lean-to concrete roof to flanking bay to left behind parapet with flight of steps surmounting flanking bay to right behind parapet. Painted rendered walls with inscribed cut-stone plaque to first stage, grouped (three-part arrangement) trefoil-headed inscribed cut-stone plaques to second stage on cut-stone sill, grouped (three-part arrangement) trefoil-headed panels to flanking bay to left, painted rendered panelled piers to corners to flanking bays, and rendered coping to parapets. Pointed-arch blind door opening to first stage with moulded cut-limestone surround having cross finial to apex. Square-headed blind door openings to top stage. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Kilkenny Presentation Convent abutting section of unpainted roughcast city wall having sections of painted render over.

• Steps, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Flight of five cut-limestone steps, c.1800. Road fronted.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1850, originally two separate two-bay three-storey (north) and single-bay three-storey (south) houses. Amalgamated, c.1825. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on iron braces. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (in bipartite arrangement to left) with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one timber sash windows to bipartite openings. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (some paired) round-headed display windows, glazed timber door having overpanel, timber panelled door to house having overpanel, glazed fascia with consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1775. Renovated, c.1950, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Roof not visible behind parapet. Painted roughcast walls with rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Replacement tile-clad shopfront, c.1950, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber door having overlight, fascia with consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Scotch House, house, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced eight-bay three-storey house, c.1875, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1775, on site possibly incorporating fabric of medieval range, c.1600, with single-bay full-height chamfered bay to left having segmental-headed carriageway to ground floor. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Roof not visible behind parapet with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with full-height rendered piers, paired moulded stringcourses to top floor forming 'fascia', and rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds to left, one-over-one (left) and two-over-two (right) timber sash windows. Segmental-headed carriageway to left ground floor with no fittings. Replacement timber shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor with paired panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber double doors, fascia having paired consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Wheelguard, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of five cut-stone wheelguards, c.1775.

• House, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1926. Renovated, 1996, with replacement shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof behind parapet with ridge tiles, coping to gables including coping to gable (south) with rendered chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping, and concealed rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered coping to parapet. Segmental-headed central door opening in square-headed recess with cut-limestone step threshold, and timber surround with dentilated ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with part rendered cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds with hood mouldings on blind friezes framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes (first floor) or six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes (top floor). Street fronted with footpath to front.

• Ulster Bank, bank/financial institution, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey red brick Queen Anne-style bank with attic, built 1914, with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor, and two-bay three-storey pedimented advanced end bay to right. Pitched slate roof (gabled to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Flemish bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Limestone ashlar walls to ground floor forming frontage with frieze on moulded course having raised lettering, moulded cornice, red brick Flemish bond walls to upper floors with limestone ashlar dressings including blocks to advanced pier to left, quoins to corners to end bay, blind balustraded 'parapet' to top floor on moulded course having moulded coping, and egg-and-dart profiled surround to gable forming open-bed pediment. Grouped (three-part arrangement) square-headed window openings to ground floor on moulded cut-limestone sill with cut-limestone mullions and transoms, and fixed-pane fittings. Paired square-headed window openings to upper floors with cut-limestone dressings including moulded sills, flush surrounds, lintels (having moulded reveals to first floor), stringcourse over to first floor end bay, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Oculus window opening to gable in decorative heraldic cartouche with archivolt, keystone, and fixed-pane fitting. Square-headed door opening with engaged polished Kilkenny marble Ionic columns on pedestals having scroll consoles over supporting frieze, and timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with engaged polished Kilkenny marble Ionic columns on pedestals having scroll consoles over supporting frieze, and no fittings having open overlight. Interior with glazed timber panelled doors having carved timber architraves, and sections of timber panelled wainscoting. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front having embossed cast-iron piers, and iron gate.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1750, possibly originally forming part of larger five-bay four-storey composition with building to south incorporating fabric of medieval house, pre-1700, to basement. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered walls with rendered fascia to second floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber door, fascia having decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1750, possibly originally forming part of lager five-bay four-storey composition with building to north with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor (incorporating square-headed carriageway to left having no fittings) with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber door having overlight, decorative course over, fascia having raised lettering, decorative 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. Refenestrated, c.1900. Renovated, 1994, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. One of a pair. Roof not visible with cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with iron braces to corner. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, 1994, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with inscribed pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber double doors having overlight, fascia with decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with staircase having timber balustrade. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, with single-bay three-storey lean-to shallow return to south. Now in commercial use to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return) 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 and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, with single-bay three-storey lean-to shallow return to south. Refenestrated, pre-1999. Now in use as offices. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return) 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, and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999. Round-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on cut-stone plinth.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, with single-bay three-storey lean-to shallow return to south. Now in use as offices. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return) 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 and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth.

• Church hall/parish hall, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey over basement Diocesan Hall, c.1800, with elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles having copper vent to apex, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with cast-iron bootscraper, cut-limestone Tuscan doorcase having columns supporting dosserets, modillion cornice, timber panelled double doors, and fanlight having moulded archivolt. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor with cut-limestone surround including voussoirs having chamfered reveals, and wrought iron double gates. Interior with fluted/reeded reveals to window openings having timber panelled shutters, and cantilevered timber staircase. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, with single-bay full-height chamfered bay to right. Renovated, c.1975, with bow bay window inserted to ground floor. Now in use as gallery to ground floor having offices over. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, slightly sproketed eaves, 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 and three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Bow bay window inserted to ground floor, c.1975, with fixed-pane fittings having dentilated band over. Pair of square-headed door openings to ground floor with fluted/reeded pilaster surrounds having consoles supporting dentilated blocks, and replacement glazed timber doors having overlights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on concrete brick cobbled footpath.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey house, c.1825, on a corner site. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to ends. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds having entablatures over on consoles, four-over-four (first floor) and two-over-four (top floor) timber sash windows. Replacement Kilkenny marble-clad shopfront to ground floor with polished pink granite tapered pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, mosaic-tiled threshold, glazed timber door having overlight, inscribed fascia, and moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1700–1758 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay three-storey over basement house, extant 1758, on a rectangular plan; three-bay three-storey rear (west) elevation. In alternative use, 1830-71. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, abbreviated off-central chimney stack to rear (west) elevation, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee cornice on blind frieze retaining cast-iron downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls; repointed rubble limestone wall to rear (west) elevation with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners. Round-headed off-central door opening with tooled cut-limestone step, and moulded surround centred on vermiculated keystone framing replacement timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Inserted round-headed door opening (south) with two concrete steps, and moulded surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns (first floor) or replacement casement windows (top floor). Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-limestone shallow sills, and rendered red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns (first floor) or replacement casement windows (top floor). Set back from street with concrete flagged forecourt.

• Archer Mansion, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1825, incorporating fabric of medieval building, 1582/4, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with advanced shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in use as offices to upper floors. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves having iron braces. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-limestone date stone/plaque to first floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, replacement one-over-one (first floor) and two-over-two (remainder) timber sash windows, c.1900. Segmental-headed door opening with two tooled cut-limestone steps having cast-iron bootscraper, timber pilaster doorcase, timber panelled door having sidelights, fanlight, and consoles supporting fascia over having dentilated moulded cornice. Advanced timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with fluted/reeded engaged Doric columns, panelled pilasters having consoles, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber panelled double door having overlight, and fascia with dentilated moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Archer Mansion, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1825, incorporating fabric of medieval building, 1582/4, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves having iron braces. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with decorative panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows on polished Kilkenny marble stall risers, glazed timber door in recess having tiled threshold/corridor, fascia over having raised lettering, consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• The Corner House, house, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace single-bay four-storey over basement house with dormer attic, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1750, on site. Extensively renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with inscribed cut-limestone plinth possibly surviving from earlier house, c.1750, on site. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Elliptical-headed window opening to first floor with concealed sill, concave reveals, round-headed openings in tripartite arrangement having colonette mullions, archivolts, and fixed-pane fittings. Replacement shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with fixed-pane timber windows, glazed timber door, and fascia over. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• P.T. Murphy, house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey over basement house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey jettied return (east). Renovated, 1903, with pair of shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Restored, 2004. Pitched slate roof; hipped slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee-detailed cut-limestone cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal hopper and downpipe with cast-iron rainwater goods (east) on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation; rendered, ruled and lined surface (east). Pair of timber shopfronts to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing replacement six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (east) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement three-over-three timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1800. Extensively renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, no chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Painted rendered walls with rendered course to top floor. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills (forming sill course to top floor), six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted pilasters, fixed-pane (three-light) display windows, glazed frameless door, overlight, fascia having carved consoles, and dentilated cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• The Tholsel, exchange/tholsel, 1690–1700 · National interest
  Description

  Attached three- or five-bay two-storey over basement tholsel with attic, built 1695-8, on a T-shaped plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Rebuilt, 1759-61. Extended, 1829, producing present composition. Renovated, 1951. Burnt, 1985. Restored, 1986-7. Replacement flat topped hipped slate roof on a square plan centred on weathervane-topped copper-clad "cupola" on an octagonal plan; pressed iron ridges extending into clay ridge tiles, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee-detailed cut-limestone cornice on drag edged dragged cut-limestone frieze retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed rubble stone walls with rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners. Series of five round arches (ground floor) with two margined tooled cut-limestone steps, fossilised limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on battered plinths centred on dragged cut-limestone Roman Doric columns with cut-limestone archivolts or voussoirs. Series of five round arches, dragged cut-limestone Roman Doric columns with cut-limestone archivolts or voussoirs framing spear head-detailed wrought iron railings. Pair of square-headed door openings, timber surrounds with monolithic pilasters on padstones supporting archivolts on fluted scroll consoles framing timber panelled double doors having blind fanlight-detailed overpanels. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone Gibbsian surrounds centred on triple keystones framing timber casement windows. Interior restored, 1986-7, including (basement): limewashed groin vaulted cellars; (first floor): double-height vestibule on an octagonal plan with carved timber Classical-style surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled double doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; square-headed door opening into Assembly Room with timber surround framing timber panelled double doors having stained glass overlight; Assembly Room on a rectangular plan with plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Street fronted with limestone flagged footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1800, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1575, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1950. Renovated with replacement two-storey shopfront inserted to ground and to first floor. Pitched roof behind parapet with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and concealed rainwater goods. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to ends, and fascia to second floor having moulded surround. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950. Replacement two-storey limestone-clad shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with 'channelled' piers, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber double doors having overlight, fascia with stepped coping supporting fixed-pane (four-light) window having cut-limestone surround, and moulded course over. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Langton House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1600, on site with round-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1900. Renovated and part refenestrated, c.1950, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, on rendered eaves having iron braces retaining cast-iron downpipe. Painted rendered walls with rendered bas-relief band to eaves, and exposed random rubble stone construction to side (north) elevation having remains of tooled cut-limestone channelled piers. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, to first floor having replacement timber casement windows, c.1950, to top floor. Replacement timber shopfront, c.1950, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows having overlights, glazed timber double doors, fascia having consoles, and moulded cornice. Round-headed carriageway to left ground floor on limestone ashlar panelled piers with profiled necking supporting limestone ashlar voussoirs having chamfered reveals. Round-headed door opening, c.1600, to side (north) elevation with cut-limestone step, and moulded cut-limestone surround (now blocked-up). Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built 1873, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1575, on site. Refenestrated, pre-1927. Renovated, post-1927, with pair of shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1975. Shopfronts renovated. One of a pair. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, rendered squat (truncated) chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled pier to end, and shared fascia to second floor having moulded rendered surround. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, pre-1927. Pair of timber shopfronts, post-1927, to ground floor with fluted pilasters, replacement fixed-pane windows, replacement glazed timber doors having timber panelled door to house with overlight, fascia over having decorative consoles, and dentilated moulded cornices. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built 1873, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1575, on site. Reroofed, c.1975. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled pier to end, and shared fascia to second floor having moulded rendered surround. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows having wrought iron sill guards. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted Ionic pilasters (some paired), fixed-pane (two- and three-light) timber windows, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to upper floors having overlight, and fascia having dentilated moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement house with dormer attic, c.1825, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1550. Reroofed and renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor and dormer attic added. Pitched roof (hipped to dormer attic windows) behind parapet with replacement slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, rendered coping to party wall, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows having uPVC casement windows to dormer attic. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, fascia having fluted consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey over basement house with dormer attic, c.1825. Refenestrated, c.1925. Renovated, c.1975, with dormer attic added. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed, 2004. Pitched roof behind parapet (hipped roof, 2004, to dormer attic window) with replacement artificial slate, 2004, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, rendered coping to part wall, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2004. Painted rendered walls with rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, having timber casement window to dormer attic. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted pilasters, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber door, fascia over having fluted consoles, and lined dentilated moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1825, incorporating fabric of medieval house, pre-1700, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1925, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1975. Pitched roof behind parapet with replacement artificial slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, and concealed rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1925. Timber shopfront, c.1925, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (four-light) timber display window on panelled stall riser having foliate motif, timber panelled double doors, fascia over having decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Kilkenny Post Office, post office, 1945–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey flat-roofed post office, c.1950, incorporating fabric of earlier post office, 1860. Flat roof not visible behind parapet with rendered (shared) chimney stack, and concealed rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar-clad wall to ground floor with unpainted cement rendered walls over having rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed openings to ground floor with cut-limestone intermediary piers, fixed-pane (two-light) windows on risers, tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having sidelights, and overlight. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having iron balcony to right first floor. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey over basement commercial building, opened 1904, on a rectangular plan; pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey returns (east). Occupied, 1911. Subdivided, 1931. Renovated, ----, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now disused. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof; replacement hipped artificial slate roofs (east), ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) on a T-shaped plan with capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with sill courses, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including remodelled ground floor retaining chimneypiece centred on embossed coat of arms. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1750. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1950. Shopfront renovated. Now in commercial use to first floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with inscribed pilasters on panelled risers, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber door having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, fascia having consoles, and dentilated moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1750. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with inscribed pilasters on panelled risers, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber door having overlight, fascia having consoles, and dentilated moulded cornice with awning box over. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1750. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1925. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1925, having overlights to first floor. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber panelled double doors, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• The Marble City Bar, house, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement house, c.1775. Renovated, 1908, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1925. Renovated, 2003, with interior remodelled. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick eaves. Painted red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation with unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, painted red brick voussoirs, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925. Timber pubfront, 1908, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with engaged Doric columns, panelled pilasters having decorative consoles, fixed-pane timber window on panelled stall riser, glazed timber panelled double doors having wrought iron overpanel, timber panelled door to house having fanlight, glazed fascia over having brass lettering, and moulded cornice. Interior to ground floor remodelled, 2003, with replacement timber fittings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Griffin, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, incorporating fabric of medieval range, pre-1700, to basement. Extensively renovated, 1926, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, 1926, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 1926. Timber shopfront, 1926, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows having overlights, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, fascia having raised lettering, consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Extensively renovated, c.1925, with rendered façade enrichments added. Renovated and part refenestrated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, c.1925, having keystones to first floor, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1925, to top floor having replacement timber casement windows to first floor. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber door having overlight, fascia having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800, with camber-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1925, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and rendered façade enrichments added. Shopfront renovated. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, c.1925, having keystones to first floor, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1925. Timber shopfront, c.1925, to ground floor (incorporating camber-headed carriageway to left having no fittings) with decorative pilasters, fixed-pane display window having colonettes supporting decorative spandrels, glazed timber door having decorative spandrels, overlight, and replacement fascia having cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Jim Holland, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1850. Renovated, c.1900, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed and renovated, c.1925, with rendered façade enrichments added. Renovated and refenestrated. Hipped and pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, slightly sproketed eaves, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered walls, c.2000, with rendered quoins to ends, and rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, c.1925, having keystones to first floor, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining some two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door. Pubfront, c.1900, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) windows on panelled riser (glazed timber screens behind having leaded stained glass panels), timber panelled double doors having overlight, glazed fascia over having brass lettering, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey gable-fronted house with half-dormer attic, c.1775, originally two-bay three-storey. Extensively renovated, 1883, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and top floor remodelled. Reroofed with shopfront renovated. Pitched (gable-fronted) and hipped roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Painted rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (west) elevation with cut-stone plaque to first floor, cast-iron tie plates to first floor, unpainted roughcast walls to side elevations, and exposed random rubble stone construction to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds (plain surround to half-dormer attic), and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, 1883, having timber casement window to half-dormer attic. Timber shopfront, 1883, to ground floor with fluted pilasters, replacement fixed-pane display window, replacement glazed timber door, fascia over having consoles, and dentilated moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1900, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, c.1825, on site with single-bay four-storey rear (east) elevation. Reroofed, c.1975. Extensively renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor probably incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cast-iron tie plates to top floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having foliate embossed keystones, and replacement uPVC casement window to first floor retaining four-over-eight timber sash window to top floor. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor probably incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display window on panelled riser, glazed timber door, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1900, on a corner site originally two separate single-bay three-storey houses possibly incorporating fabric of earlier ranges, c.1825, on site with two-bay three-storey side (north) elevation, and two-bay four-storey rear (east) elevation. Refenestrated, c.1950. Reroofed, c.1975. Renovated with replacement wrap-around shopfront inserted to ground floor. Two of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cast-iron tie plates. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having foliate embossed keystones, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1950. Replacement polished granite wrap-around shopfront to ground floor with panels, fixed-pane display windows, gazed timber double doors, and stepped timber fascia. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• The Market, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of gateway, built 1862, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar outer piers on moulded cushion courses on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar plinths having ogee-detailed cornices on friezes on stringcourses below monolithic capping. Street fronted.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1825, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay three-storey return to east. Extensively renovated, c.1875, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof (hipped to return forming L-shaped plan) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having consoles. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds to front (west) elevation, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Rendered shopfront, c.1875, to ground floor with stepped pilasters, replacement timber casement windows, timber panelled door on two tooled cut-limestone steps having overlight (glazed timber panelled door to lobby having overlight), and fascia over on moulded stringcourse having moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Kilkenny Courthouse, court house, 1790–1795 · National interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay double-height over projecting raised basement Classical-style courthouse, built 1792, originally detached incorporating fabric of earlier bridewell, 1566, to basement retaining fabric of medieval castle, 1210. Remodelled, 1828, with pedimented tetrastyle Tuscan frontispiece added to centre. Extended, 1855-6, comprising four-bay three-storey return to east. Renovated, pre-1977, with interior remodelled. Pitched slate roof (gabled to pediment; hipped to return) with clay ridge tiles, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including tooled plinth, engaged Tuscan columns forming tetrastyle frontispiece to centre supporting frieze with moulded surround to pediment having modillions, paired engaged Tuscan columns to end bays, frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course over incorporating panels to end bays having swags. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to bays flanking frontispiece in segmental-headed recesses; rectangular panels over to end bays) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds (incorporating panelled pilasters to tripartite openings supporting frieze and entablature), and six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights to tripartite openings. Series of three square-headed door openings to frontispiece with carved surrounds having friezes, entablatures, timber panelled double doors, and cut-limestone panels over incorporating roundels having swags. Square-headed openings to basement in segmental-headed recesses forming arcade on limestone ashlar piers with moulded necking, cut-stone sills, cut-stone surrounds having keystones, and six-over-six timber sash windows with one having timber panelled door. Series of four square-headed openings to left to basement with limestone ashlar Tuscan columns supporting lintels, and wrought iron gates. Interior with entrance hall having limestone flagged floor, carved timber architraves to door openings having timber panelled doors or double doors, rectangular panels over, timber panelled reveals to window openings, and shallow segmental vaulted ceiling on decorative plasterwork cornice. Set back from road with landscaped forecourt enclosed by pair of flights of twenty cut-limestone steps (leading to entrance level) with limestone ashlar parapets having chamfered coping, rusticated limestone ashlar piers having moulding supporting frieze, cut-limestone capping supporting iron lamp standards, and iron double gates.

• Saint Francis's Abbey Brewery, office, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay three-storey office building, built 1882, with two-bay three-storey side (south) elevation, and single-bay two-storey return to east. Roofs not visible behind parapets (possibly flat) with rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rusticated limestone ashlar wall to ground floor with moulding supporting frieze to first floor having course over, red brick Flemish bond walls to upper floors with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins having vermiculated panels, moulding, course to top floor, frieze having consoles, coping to parapet, and painted rendered wall to side (south) elevation. Series of four round-headed openings to ground floor in round-headed recesses having keystones, cut-limestone sill on consoles, fixed-pane timber window, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlights. Square-headed window openings to first floor in round-headed recesses (forming round-headed blind openings to side (south) elevation) with segmental-headed window openings to top floor in segmental-headed recesses (forming segmental-headed blind openings to side (south) elevation) having cut-limestone sills forming sill course on consoles, moulded reveals, red brick voussoirs having cut-limestone keystones to first floor, and three-over-six timber sash windows having yellow and vitrified blue brick overpanels to first floor. Round-headed door opening to return in round-headed rebated recess with moulded reveals, red brick voussoirs having cut-limestone keystones, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of limestone cobbling, c.1875, with cut-limestone flagged wheel tracks.

• E. Smithwick and Sons, gates/railings/walls, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1875, comprising segmental-headed carriageway with pair of painted rusticated rendered piers having dentilated moulded cornices, tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors (incorporating double doors to wicket gate) with decorative wrought iron hinges, moulded archivolt having keystone, raised lettering, tooled rendered panels, and moulded cornice to parapet having blocking course over. Lane fronted.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement red brick house, c.1775, with single-bay three-storey recessed end bay to right having round-headed carriageway to ground floor. Part refenestrated, c.1900. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Pitched slate roofs (shared to main block) with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond and rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded cut-limestone eaves having iron brackets. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone dressings including chamfered course to ground floor, quoins to ends, moulded course to eaves, and random rubble stone wall to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick voussoirs (red brick dressings to rear (east) elevation), six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone Gibbsian surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Round-headed carriageway with cut-limestone quoined voussoirs, and no fittings. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement red brick house, c.1775. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded cut-limestone eaves having iron brackets. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone dressings including chamfered course to ground floor, quoins to ends, moulded course to eaves, and random rubble stone wall to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick voussoirs (red brick dressings to rear (east) elevation), six-over-six and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone Gibbsian surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement red brick house, c.1800, with single-bay four-storey return to east. Part refenestrated. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone course to ground floor, and coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick voussoirs, six-over-one (first floor), three-over-six (second floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash window to ground floor. Square-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed doorcase with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone engaged Tuscan columns supporting frieze, timber panelled door, and shared fanlight having cut-limestone archivolt. Interior with entrance hall having carved timber architraves to door openings with timber panelled doors, plasterwork cornice to ceiling having decorative plasterwork rosette, round-headed door opening to stair hall having fanlight, carved timber staircase, and timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on rendered plinth having cut-limestone coping.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement red brick house, c.1800, reputedly incorporating fabric of medieval range, pre-1700, on site with single-bay four-storey return to east. Renovated, post-1977, with jettied box bay window inserted to left ground floor. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone course to ground floor, and coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings (including to jettied box bay window) with cut-stone sills, red brick voussoirs, six-over-one (first floor), three-over-six (second floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having fixed-pane timber window to jettied box bay window with fascia over having dentilated course leading to swept hipped slate roof. Square-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed doorcase with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone engaged Tuscan columns supporting frieze, timber panelled door, and shared fanlight having cut-limestone archivolt. Interior with entrance hall having carved timber architraves to door openings with timber panelled doors, plasterwork cornice to ceiling having decorative plasterwork rosette, and timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on rendered plinth having cut-limestone coping.

• House, 1715–1735 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1725, originally forming part of larger five-bay three-storey house with building to north with single-bay three-storey return to east incorporating fabric of medieval inn, c.1575, having two-bay single-storey range to east. Renovated, c.1850. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. Now in use as offices. Pitched (shared) roofs with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (west) elevation with exposed random rubble stone walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings to front (west) elevation with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings to return and to range to east with cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals, chamfered mullions, hood mouldings over, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1715–1735 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1725, originally forming part of larger five-bay three-storey house with building to south with single-bay three-storey return to east incorporating fabric of medieval inn, c.1575, having two-bay single-storey range to east. Renovated, c.1850. Reroofed, c.1950. Renovated and refenestrated with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in use as offices to upper floors. Pitched (shared) roofs with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (west) elevation with exposed random rubble stone walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings to front (west) elevation with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings to return and to range to east with cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals, chamfered mullions, hood mouldings over, and replacement timber casement windows. Timber shopfront to ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane timber window, and timber panelled double doors having fascia over. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• McGrath, house, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1775, possibly originally three-bay two-storey. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1925, possibly with top floor added. Now disused. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and two-over-two (top floor) timber sash windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with pilasters, fixed-pane (three-light) timber display windows, timber panelled double doors, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1775. Renovated, c.1825, with window opening to left ground floor remodelled. In use as Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, c.1900-c.1925. Reroofed. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement slate, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to end, and slate hanging to side (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings (remodelled to left ground floor, c.1825, to accommodate tripartite window opening) with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash window to tripartite opening with two-over-two sidelights. Round-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone surround incorporating double keystone, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on limestone ashlar parapet having cut-limestone coping.

• House, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1775, originally end-of-terrace. Part refenestrated, c.1925. Now in use as guesthouse. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash window, c.1925, to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone surround incorporating double keystone, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on limestone ashlar parapet having cut-limestone coping.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1825, built as extension to house to south. Reroofed and part refenestrated, c.1925. Now in use as guesthouse. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1925, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, six-over-six (first floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, to ground floor. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on unpainted rendered parapet having cut-limestone coping.

• Watergate Theatre, cinema, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached single-bay double-height cinema, pre-1945, on a cranked plan with three-bay double-height entrance bay to west having single-bay full-height breakfront, and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced flanking end bays. Renovated and extended, 1993, comprising single-bay double-height flat-roofed stage house to east with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch added to breakfront to accommodate use as theatre. Roofs not visible behind parapets with concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to stage house not visible. Pitched (gabled) glazed roof to porch in iron frame on iron colonettes. Painted rendered walls with crow-stepped gables to main (auditorium) block and to entrance bay having red brick soldier course parapets to entrance bay, and red brick soldier course parapets to advanced flanking end bays. Painted corrugated-iron-clad walls to stage house. Square-headed window opening to breakfront in crow-stepped recess with profiled window openings to flanking bays having rendered surrounds, square-headed window openings to remainder with concrete sills, and fixed-pane timber windows to all window openings having casement section to breakfront. Square-headed openings to porch with glazed double doors having fixed-pane flanking lights. Set back from line of road on a slightly elevated site with flight of six cut-limestone steps leading to red brick cobbled forecourt.

• James Hughes, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1900, on a corner site probably originally two separate two-bay two-storey houses with two-bay two-storey chamfered side (north-west) elevation. Renovated, c.1925, with openings to ground floor remodelled to accommodate commercial use. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, rendered surrounds, and timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to ground floor remodelled, c.1925, with fixed-pane (three- and four-light) timber windows, and timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed door opening to side (north-west) elevation with rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. One of a terrace of three forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, two-over-two and one-over-one (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess having shared panelled pilaster, archivolt with decorative keystone, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Refenestrated, c.1900. Reroofed, c.1950. One of a terrace of three forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess having shared panelled pilaster, archivolt with decorative keystone, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. One of a terrace of three forming part of a group of seven. Hipped and pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, two-over-two and one-over-one (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with rendered surround, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. Part refenestrated. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining two-over-two timber sash windows to first floor. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess with shared panelled pilaster, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. Part refenestrated. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows having replacement uPVC casement windows to top floor. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess with shared panelled pilaster, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of stone cobbling, c.1800.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess with shared panelled pilaster, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed and mostly refenestrated. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of seven. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining three-over-three timber sash windows to top floor. Round-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed recess with shared panelled pilaster, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace single-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1800. Reroofed, c.1950. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast wall to front (north) elevation with unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings (in bipartite arrangement to first floor) with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with remains of cast-iron bootscraper, two cut-limestone steps, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front incorporating wrought iron grille to basement having cut-limestone surround.

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Radon

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, 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 Gardens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Gardens · Gairdíní an Chaisleáin

Area

273,346 m² (27.33 ha, 67.55 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Kilkenny No. 1 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny No. 1 Urban electoral division: 5,650 people in 2,291 households; 46% 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

Dukesmeadows, Friarsinch, Gardens, Gardens, Gardens, Jamesgreen, Walkinslough

Placenames

Gardens 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.