County: Wexford Site name: WHITEROCK SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0805
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 703885m, N 619725m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.319314, -6.476165
A number of features were identified during monitoring on this site by Redmond Tobin in 2000 (Excavations 2000, No. 1076). A subsequent assessment, again by Redmond Tobin, of a number of features revealed a possible prehistoric structure, surviving as a number of pits and gullies and a small collection of struck flint from the topsoil (Excavations 2000, No. 1077). Prior to consultation with Dúchas, only topsoil had been removed from the possible structure and full excavation was agreed as an appropriate response in late 2000.
In 2001 the licence was extended to the writer to cover the excavation of the features exposed in the 2000 assessment. As many of these features cut each other, it was established that the earliest was a narrow gully some 3m or so from the field boundary to the west of the site. This was found to contain cream ware and some glass fragments and is probably related to a pathway indicated on the first edition OS map.
Further investigation revealed that all the surviving features relate to the 19th-century development of the site. No further struck flint was recovered during the excavation and it would appear that the artefacts retrieved during the 2000 assessment and monitoring either derived from surface features destroyed during the 19th century or were perhaps introduced onto the site during the same period.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
