What is recorded here

Kilkenny's medieval suburb already teemed behind St John's Gate when people cut pits and furrows in the earth beside John Street. They may have stored food, buried refuse or marked a boundary, while clay pots pasted with local life buried beneath them. A hotel now stands above that forgotten neighbourhood, but the shape of its streets and kitchens still belongs to the thirteenth century.

Medieval pits to rear of 26-9 John Street upper, 40m outside (NW of) the site of St John's Gate and within a suburb of the medieval town that developed in the 13th century. Test excavations in advance of development of the existing 'Kilford Arms' hotel development by Ken Hanley (00E0711) revealed two pits, furrow cuts and a possible fosse, all of which produced Kilkenny-type 13th/14th-century medieval pottery (Hanley 2000, unpublished; 2002, 179; 2002, 179-80). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 14 December 2020

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