2002:1926 - NEW ROSS: Town Walls, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford

Site name: NEW ROSS: Town Walls

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:13(03)

Licence number: 02E1307

Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 671650m, N 627707m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.396204, -6.947190

Monitoring was undertaken in an area known as Town Walls, immediately inside the eastern line of the medieval town walls of New Ross, on 12 August 2002.

A single, L-shaped foundation trench was cut toward the southern boundary of the site. The trench, which measured 2.1m east–west by 1.9m, was excavated to a maximum depth of 0.6m. The stratigraphy uncovered consisted of loose topsoil and modern building rubble overlying undisturbed natural shales.

Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.