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2025:458 - Avoca River, Arklow, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow

Site name: Avoca River, Arklow

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 25E0547

Author: Caitlyn Haskins

Author/Organisation Address: Mizen Archaeology, Unit 3, Kinsale Commercial Park, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Site type: Wreck/river revetment

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 724257m, N 673039m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.794031, -6.157546

In-stream archaeological testing was carried out on previously identified archaeology and underwater cultural heritage within the Avoca River. The testing confirmed the presence of four features: two wooden wrecks, timber piles possibly associated with a 19th-century river crossing, and a series of timber revetments around a small island.


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