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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
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