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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(Ó Drisceoil 2004, 276-7; 2005, 265-6; 2005, 43-61; 2012, https://excavations.ie/report/2012/Kilkenny/0023413/ and unpublished report).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
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