County: Wexford Site name: BALLYHACK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1592
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670729m, N 611256m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.248475, -6.964192
Testing of a proposed housing development at Ballyhack took place on 17 January 2005. The development site, which is situated 400m to the north-east of the historic village of Ballyhack, consisted of an open green field under rough pasture. The waters of the River Suir/Waterford Harbour are visible 500m to the south-west of the site. A series of six test-trenches was excavated by mechanical excavator fitted with a 1.4m-wide toothless bucket. The trenches were excavated in areas of maximum construction impact: in the footprints of the proposed houses and in the area of the proposed storm-water tank and oil interceptor. No archaeological features or deposits were uncovered in any of the test-trenches.
