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Excavations.ie

2004:1802 - ENNISCORTHY: 31 Court Street, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford

Site name: ENNISCORTHY: 31 Court Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 02E0540 ext.

Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology

Site type: Burial

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 697173m, N 639776m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.500717, -6.568777

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Testing was undertaken at the corner of Court Street and Church Street, Enniscorthy, in 2002 (Excavations 2002, No. 1911). The site is within the zone of archaeological potential for the town, beside the parish church of St Mary's, SMR 20:31(04).

Eight trenches were excavated within the boundaries of the site. Six of these trenches uncovered varying amounts of disarticulated human remains and articulated east-west-oriented inhumations.

Monitoring of construction-related groundworks was undertaken at the site in 2004. The utilisation of a raft substructure beneath the footprint of a medical centre in the area of the inhumations ensured the preservation of all archaeological deposits in situ.

To the rear of the standing buildings along the Court Street frontage of the site, a small subsoil-cut ditch was uncovered running parallel to the street. The excavation of a box-section across this feature uncovered a single sherd of medieval pottery. As no burials or disarticulated remains had been uncovered outside (to the north) of the line of the ditch, it is possible that the feature may represent the boundary of the medieval church and graveyard of St Mary's.

No further features of archaeological significance were uncovered during the development of the site.

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