County: Wexford Site name: NEW ROSS: 9 Michael Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:13 Licence number: 00E0617
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 672001m, N 627373m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.393157, -6.942106
Pre-construction archaeological testing was undertaken at No. 9 Michael Street, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Michael Street is located at the southern perimeter of the zone of archaeological potential for New Ross. Planning permission had been obtained to construct a single-storey commercial building on the site. One of the planning conditions required that archaeological test-trenches should be opened on the site.
Four test-trenches were opened with the aid of a machine. No archaeological remains were found. In two of the test-trenches a spread of dumped organic-like material was uncovered at high levels, between 0.27m and 0.45m below ground level. The dumped material contained broken slate, shell, fragmented animal bone, red brick and 19th-century blackware. The natural deposits—weathered rock intermixed with boulder clay—occurred at high levels in all of the test-trenches. There were very few deposits above the natural soil horizon; these consisted of built-up, thin deposits of dark greyish-brown soil with pebbles and water-rolled stones, and sandy clays.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered at the site.
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