County: Wexford Site name: NEW ROSS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0086
Author: Sarah McCutcheon, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 671734m, N 627549m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.394774, -6.945990
Archaeological monitoring/recording in tandem with the main drainage scheme commenced on 18 April 1995, and is ongoing at time of writing.
The pipes are being laid on a line which follows the south and west circuits of the medieval town wall on its exterior. The pipelines also extend through the medieval suburbs of Irishtown and Rosbercon.
To date the pipes generally have either replaced existing sewers, being laid in previously cut trenches, or have been placed in trenches cut through the natural rock. Traces of the town ditch, however, have been recorded on the street known as Town Wall at the south-east of the town. Archaeological remains have also been recorded on the Thomastown Rd.,which lies in the suburb of Rosbercon.
A pumping station inserted in Rosbercon revealed archaeological layers and burials. An excavation in advance of further pipe-laying in this area is ongoing. Stretches of substantial stone walls and evidence for several phases of burial have been excavated to date, and the information would suggest that the area is the location of the Dominican friary founded in 1267.
Brook Lodge, Castlebernard, Bandon, Co. Cork
