County: Wexford Site name: IRISHTOWN, New Ross
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0565
Author: E. Eoin Sullivan
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 672392m, N 628051m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.399198, -6.936217
Archaeological monitoring of the housing development is now complete (see Excavations 1998, 225, for summary of 1998 season). The site borders the zone of archaeological potential for New Ross as identified in the Urban Archaeological Survey. It is adjacent to St Stephen's Cemetery, which may be an early ecclesiastical enclosure.
Monitoring of access roadways, services, topsoil removal and the excavation of the foundations for the townhouses took place.
Two burnt pits below the level of the topsoil were identified during the excavation of the foundation trenches. The first pit, at the south-western quadrant of the site, was subrectangular and measured 1.1m (east-west) by 1.5m. The second pit, at the northern side of the site, was partially removed by the mechanical excavation of the foundation trench. The remaining portion was 0.65m long (east-west). No archaeological strata were associated with either of these isolated pits.
The archaeological monitoring at this site is now complete.
39 Trees Road, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin
