County: Wexford Site name: Coolgreany Demesne
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX003–011 Licence number: 08E0176
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology, Rothe House, Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718528m, N 669699m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.765316, -6.243658
Testing was undertaken at Coolgreany Demesne, Coolgreany, as a condition of planning permission for a single-house development. The development site lay partially within the area of constraint for WX003–011, an ecclesiastical site. This refers to the possible site of an Augustinian priory, of which little is known. Indeed its very existence has been questioned by Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 363–4). Testing failed to uncover anything of archaeological significance within the cuttings opened and subsequent monitoring also revealed nothing of note.
Reference
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1988 Medieval religious houses Ireland. Dublin.
