County: Wexford Site name: BALLYANNE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0137
Author: Jo Moran and assistants
Site type: House - medieval
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 674692m, N 631305m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.428134, -6.901707
Monitoring of groundworks for a bungalow was carried out at Ballyanne in response to a planning condition on 6 April 1998. The site lies c. 5 km north of New Ross, directly across the road from Ballyanne parish church and graveyard (SMR 29:2) and falls within the zone of archaeological potential for that site.In situ burning and a few structural features, associated with 12th-14th-century pottery, were uncovered during monitoring, and groundworks were stopped.
Whilst the archaeological preservation was generally disappointing, a 3m-wide band of archaeological material survived running east-west across the site of the proposed house, between areas of cultivation.
A possible drip-gully, post-holes, flooring and associated pottery suggested that a medieval house once stood on the site, before being largely removed by agricultural activity. The drip-gully is likely to have followed the line of a house wall, but the post-holes did not appear to have supported the same structure.
A test-pit in the area of a proposed sump to the north-west of the house identified a layer of redeposited clay (possible flooring) overlying an early soil. Preservation appears to be better north-west of the house site and in the adjoining two properties.
33 Woodlawn, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
