County: Kilkenny Site name: GOWRAN: Fair Green
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0201
Author: Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 663136m, N 653543m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.629445, -7.067370
Testing was undertaken at a development site here. It revealed the presence of features dating to the medieval and post-medieval period in Trenches 1, 2 and 4–8. A 4m-wide ditch uncovered in Trenches 1 and 2 may be the northern line of the medieval town defences.
Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
