Survey Data

Reg No

12000119


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

Steps


In Use As

Steps


Date

1740 - 1760


Coordinates

250640, 155898


Date Recorded

16/06/2004


Date Updated

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Description

Flight of fifteen tooled cut-limestone steps, c.1750, arranged in groups of five (east), six (central) and four (west) with limestone flagged landings. Repaired, 1970.

Appraisal

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.