County: Wexford Site name: 39–41 Main Street South, Wexford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E1066
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Primrose Cottage, Park, Bree, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: Urban, medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704977m, N 621650m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.336408, -6.459556
Monitoring of groundworks continued for the insertion of a new basement at this site. Monitoring was restricted to the removal of horizontal layers of mostly modern or disturbed overburden to the formation level of a new raft-style substructure/floor which will extend across the entire indoor area of the site. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered, although a sandy subsoil was uncovered in the north-western corner of the site and a single sherd of medieval pottery was found at the rear of the site, suggesting that the original shoreline of Wexford harbour was somewhat to the east of this part of South Main Street and that reclamation to the east of the shoreline had been ongoing since the medieval period.
