County: Wexford Site name: KILLURIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 37:2 Licence number: 98E0422
Author: Joanna Wren, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Graveyard
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 696496m, N 626440m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.381007, -6.582588
Testing took place on the site of the proposed extension to the north of Killurin graveyard, Co. Wexford. The standing church at Killurin was built in c. 1800 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 360) on the site of an earlier medieval parish church and graveyard.
Five test-trenches were opened in the area of the extension. Identical stratigraphy was uncovered in all the trenches. There was an initial deposit of dark topsoil with plant roots 0.1m thick. At 128.09m above sea level this gave way to a sandy, yellow/ brown clay with some flecks of charcoal. This deposit was 0.8–1.2m thick and gave way between 127.29m and 126.89m above sea level to yellow boulder clay and shale bedrock.
Reference
O'Flanagan, M. 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wexford collected during the progress of the ordinance survey in 1840. 2 vols. Bray.
The Mile Post, Waterford
