steps — Butter Slip

The record classifies steps — Butter Slip as steps. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.

No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.

The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.

The public record still identifies the place as steps. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.

steps — Butter Slip matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An attractive feature in the townscape of Kilkenny having origins in an early seventeenth-century covered alley established by Nicholas Langton (n. d.) to link High Street with Saint Kieran's Street (then known as Low Lane). Employing locally-sourced limestone the steps are imbued with a picturesque quality lacking in modern methods of paving roads and streets while the inscribed patterns introduce an element of some artistic design merit to the site. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.