County: Wexford Site name: NEW ROSS: John Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1699
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Site type: Excavations - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 671894m, N 627885m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.397770, -6.943570
Testing of a site at John Street, New Ross, was undertaken on 8 November 2002. The site is toward the eastern limit of the zone of archaeological potential of the town. Four trenches were excavated.
The testing revealed no features of definite archaeological significance, although early activity on the site was suggested by the discovery of a number of sherds of glazed and unglazed medieval pottery. The deposits once associated with the pottery fragments may have been removed during the construction of the post-medieval houses uncovered along the street frontage of the site and the relatively modern quarrying undertaken across the rest of the site.
Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
