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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
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