1998:687 - BRAY: Presentation College, Newcourt, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: BRAY: Presentation College, Newcourt

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0022

Author: Rosanne Meenan

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 726923m, N 717629m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.193950, -6.100531

A feature of possible archaeological interest was observed in a field that was the site of a proposed housing development. It consisted of a flat area enclosed by what appeared to be a circular ditch, c. 12m in diameter. A single hand-dug trench was cut through the feature, revealing that the ground level had been raised by the introduction of modern fill, and the ditch may instead have been a short surviving section of the ditch of a long-demolished field fence.

Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath