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2019:776 - SIGGINSTOWN CASTLE, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford

Site name: SIGGINSTOWN CASTLE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX053-001

Licence number: 19E0037

Author: David Sweetman

Author/Organisation Address: Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath

Site type: House - 17th century and Castle - tower house

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 706250m, N 607101m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.205432, -6.445474

Monitoring took place of removal of post-medieval filling from the floor of a 17th-century house as well as accessway and second floor of the tower-house. Nothing was found in fill of the tower-house. Remains of two brick fireplaces probably of 19th-century date were found on the floor of the house. There were no medieval or late-medieval finds.


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