2002:1910 - ENNISCORTHY: 6 Court Street, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford Site name: ENNISCORTHY: 6 Court Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1645

Author: Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology

Site type: Town

Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)

ITM: E 697153m, N 639745m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.500438, -6.569067

Testing was carried out at 6 Court Street, Enniscorthy, in November 2002, before construction. Four test-trenches were excavated in the yard of the property, and three in the attached garden. No archaeological deposits or features were uncovered in the testing of the yard, which showed that the property had originally been excavated into the hillside, with subsoil being encountered immediately beneath the present yard surface at 0.1–0.2m deep.

The excavation in the adjacent garden showed that the original ground level was up to 2m higher than the present yard level. A cobbled surface and boundary wall were uncovered, consistent with property boundaries marked in Griffith’s Valuation map of c. 1850. China and clay pipe were found in association with these post-medieval features.

Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford