County: Wicklow Site name: Wentworth Place, Wicklow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E1160 ext.
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 731212m, N 694127m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.981809, -6.045969
Monitoring took place of development works associated with the Wentworth Place culvert replacement scheme in Wicklow town. Work began on Phase 3 of the scheme in mid-January 2008. This phase consisted of laying sections of the new culvert and sewer pipe from the shopping centre carpark entrance on Wentworth Place and into the abbey grounds.
An intensive programme of excavations was undertaken during the course of the scheme and these were monitored at all times. Three pieces of masonry were found during the excavation for the gabions (stone-filled baskets) in Ashtown Stream. They were ornate and well worked and very likely to have belonged to the abbey at some time. The lack of a stratified context with which to associate the masonry, however, precluded any definitive dating of the stones. An isolated, truncated pit uncovered during construction of the wall on Woodenbridge Row was the only feature found during the course of the project. The pit contained pottery of early modern date, but little else that could determine its function.
