County: Wexford Site name: NEW ROSS: 48 The Quays
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0541
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 671650m, N 627707m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.396204, -6.947190
Two test-trenches totalling 12.6m2 (8.4% of site area) were excavated at the site of a demolished semi-detached structure at 48 The Quays, New Ross, Co. Wexford, in April 2003, within the footprint of the proposed development.
A well and several walls were uncovered directly below the existing concrete floor level, suggesting that the phase of building they represented was of late post-medieval date, immediately pre-dating the construction of the recently demolished building.
Probable reclamation layers uncovered in both trenches appear to suggest that the building represented by the walls was constructed following a phase of intentional post-medieval reclamation in this part of New Ross. The necessity for this reclamation was evidenced by the presence of tidally affected groundwater at a depth of 1.5m below existing ground level in the trench closest to the River Barrow on the date of the excavation.
Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
