What is recorded here

Beneath the future hotel basement on Vicar Street, medieval pits and stakeholes waited sealed by flood deposits. Catherine McLoughlin and John Tierney uncovered them before construction, preserving a buried layer of Kilkenny life that water had hidden from later eyes. The pits may have held refuse, tools or marks of everyday work, while the floods erased the hands that made them.

A series of medieval pits and stakeholes sealed by possible flood deposits below the Vicar’s Choral building (KK019-026120-) at 15-16 Vicar Street, Kilkenny City. The features were recorded during archaeological excavation by Catherine McLoughlin undertaken prior to the development of the Kilkenny Inn Hotel and following an initial assessment by John Tierney (Eachtra Archaeological Projects) (licenses 03E0707, 03E1901; Tierney 2003, unpublished; 2006, 275; McLoughlin 2004, unpublished; 2007, 221; Stafford 2007, 221-2). Archaeological excavation in the area of the new hotel’s basement revealed a series of medieval pits and stake-holes overlain by layers of possible flood deposits. The features were preserved in situ beneath the surface carpark. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 13 November 2020

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