2007:1943 - Cleristown, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford Site name: Cleristown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0901

Author: John Purcell, 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 695917m, N 614765m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.276195, -6.594419

Test-trenching was carried out as part of further information for a single-house development at Cleristown, Newcastle, Co. Wexford, within the zone of potential for a tower-house. A series of trenches were subsequently excavated by mechanical digger at the house site, entrance and percolation area. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.