County: Wexford Site name: GOREY: Town Centre
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 77:33 Licence number: 98E0134
Author: Rob Lynch, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715425m, N 659842m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.677434, -6.293068
Archaeological monitoring of site investigation works, which preceded the Gorey Regional Water Supply Scheme, was carried out in Gorey town centre between 18 March and 8 April 1998. Fifty-eight narrow slit-trenches were excavated through the town centre and its environs, 28 of these were excavated within the zone of archaeological potential as identified in the Urban Survey, and sixteen of these were monitored.
Only two features of archaeological interest were revealed in the course the monitoring. The first occurred in Trench 9 along The Avenue and appeared to be the remains of a robbed-out wall associated with 18th-century pottery. The second feature occurred in Trench 13 along McDermot Street and consisted of the remains of a north-east/south-west-orientated drain, constructed of hand-made red bricks. The remainder of the stratigraphy in the trenches consisted of the tarmacadam road surface overlying hard-core and natural geology.
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