County: Wexford Site name: KILLURIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 32:25 Licence number: 98E0469
Author: Isabel Bennett, for Mary Henry and Associates.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 696496m, N 626440m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.381007, -6.582588
Archaeological test excavation of a proposed development site in Killurin Td, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, took place on 27 October 1998. The field, in the eastern half of which two houses have already been constructed, may be the location of an enclosure, picked up through aerial photography. This, however, was discounted when the site was inspected during fieldwork for the Archaeological inventory of Co. Wexford, and it is not included in that publication. It was proposed to put two further houses in the western half of the field (that portion tested under the current licence), and planning permission for the same had been granted to the landowner.
There was no visible sign on the ground of the presence of an enclosure. Two long trenches were opened by machine in the western portion of the field, one running north-south, the other east-west, extending the full length of the site. Nothing of archaeological interest, apart from some ploughmarks, was noted.
The only small finds were a sherd of modern china and another of the neck of a black glass bottle.
Glen Fahan, Ventry, Tralee, Co. Kerry
