County: Wexford Site name: Bridgetown South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0647
Author: Nial O’Neill, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 698853m, N 609730m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.230433, -6.552878
Testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed development, the construction of a petrol station and retail unit, in Bridgetown South, Co. Wexford. The site was situated on the southern bank of Bridgetown canal and 50m south of the Waterford–Rosslare Harbour train line with Bridgetown rail station located 250m to the east. The northern end of the site was located on former marshland described as the ‘highest point to which ordinary tides flow’ on the second-edition OS sheet. The southern end was the site of several now-demolished buildings.
Five trenches were excavated across the footprint of the proposed development. The basal deposit consisted of dark-brown clayey silt and appeared to have been topsoil prior to the placement of a levelling deposit composed of large sub-angular stones in a matrix of light-brown clayey silt. Above this was mid-brown clay and above this again was stony sandy clay. Subsoil was revealed at a depth of 0.4m towards the southern end. This increased gradually to 2m at the northern limit of the site. No deposits, features or finds of an archaeological nature were uncovered on this site.
