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KILKENNY CITY WALLS

Thanks to Kilkenny Heritage Council and their conservation plan we can show walls that protected city for centuries. Those plans arose from concern of the people of Kilkenny to ensure the long-term survival of their city's unique walls. The significance of the walls as those plans revealed is due to their survival and the fact that they define the extent, layouts and status of the medieval city.

Talbot Tower 10.23 - Archeological excavations

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Description
The City Walls form a linear monument, part standing, part buried, and part of uncertain location. They may have had associated earthworks within and outside the walls, and had gate towers or 'castles' across the principal roads. Considered as a standing monument or buried potential, the walls should be seen as a 'defensive zone' around the medieval town and its suburbs rather than a single line of series of unconnected parts. It is in this sense that they can, for the most part, be defined. It is also important for the walls to be seen as an integral part of topography of the medieval town.

Evans Tower at the north east corner of the Hightown defended circuit

The lenghth of medieval wall standing to almost full height, running west from Black Friars Gate (10.7) along the southern side of Abbey Street and forming a revetment to a raised garden.

Talbot's Castle (10.23) forms the south-western corner of the Hightown defended circuit and represents the only surviving complete defensive tower of the City Wall circuit.

Lost Castle Gate (10.30) may have served as an outer gate to the castle, guarding the Thomastown Road where it enters the city. It was removed in 1769.

The exisiting parts of Kilkenny City walls are on Google Earth and Google Maps
Lost walls, towers and gates are in Google 3Dwarehouse

Link to 3D Warehouse

More information :

http://www.heritagecouncil.ie