County: Wexford Site name: GOREY TRAIN STATION
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0964
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Primrose Cottage, Park, Bree, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 707580m, N 637089m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.474620, -6.416421
Prior to the construction of a surface carpark, test-trenching was undertaken in a small triangular paddock associated with Gorey train station. The site is located c. 200m south of Gorey’s zone of archaeological potential, WX007–033.
A total of ten test-trenches were excavated in a regular grid pattern across the area of proposed development. No features of archaeological potential were noted during the testing exercise. A pair of roughly parallel features of probable agricultural origin were uncovered toward the south-eastern end of the site. The larger of the two features appeared to be the backfilled remnant of a field boundary visible on the first-edition OS map of the area.
