Survey Data
Reg No
12000230
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1550 - 1650
Coordinates
250459, 156127
Date Recorded
16/06/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of attached single-bay single-storey back house with dormer attic, c.1600. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone with rubble stone chimney stack having dressed stone quoins. Random rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with hewn limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, one having hood moulding over (mullion now missing), and fittings now gone. Square-headed door opening with hewn limestone dressings, timber lintel, and fittings now gone. Set back from road in shared grounds.
Appraisal
The remains of a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century back house representing an important element of the archaeological heritage of Kilkenny.