2004:1791 - BRIDESWELL BIG, Wexford
County: Wexford
Site name: BRIDESWELL BIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 04E1353
Author: Ken Wiggins, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 13 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704486m, N 660197m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.682843, -6.454665
The site is a rectangular plot located at the south-east corner of a much larger grazing field, measuring c. 90m (north-west to south-east) by c. 42m. The proposed development comprises the construction of a dwelling house with detached garage. The site is located nearly opposite SMR 6:40, a graveyard known as Brideswell burial ground. It is located c. 40m south of two delisted monuments, a holy well known as Bride’s Well and a pilgrim’s path known as St Brigid’s Track.
Testing in October 2004 comprised the excavation of four cuttings. The topsoil in each case was mechanically excavated by a JCB excavator fitted with a 1.6m-wide flat-edged ditching bucket. No features or artefacts of archaeological significance were revealed in any of the cuttings.