County: Wexford Site name: CULLENTRA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 37:26 Licence number: 00E0788
Author: Emer Dennehy, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 699988m, N 621640m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.337250, -6.532740
Test-trenching was requested as part of the planning process for a site at Cullentra, Barntown, Co. Wexford, because the proposed development was near the site of a castle. The earliest reference to the castle is from 1666, when it was granted to Philip Hore. According to the Archaeological inventory of County Wexford, the site ‘was probably not a tower house but a dwelling of the seventeenth century’.
Four test-trenches were excavated, positioned on the footprints of the proposed foundations. The trenches had an average width of 1.5m and depth of 0.8m. The length of the trenches varied from 4m to 15m. No artefacts or stratigraphy of an archaeological nature were identified.
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