County: Wexford Site name: NEMESTOWN, KILMORE QUAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09D38; 09R117
Author: Eoghan Kieran, Moore Marine Services, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway.
Site type: Underwater assessment
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 697409m, N 603906m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.178359, -6.575695
Moore Marine Services Ltd was commissioned by Dominic Delany & Associates on behalf of Wexford County Council to carry out an underwater impact assessment of a proposed sewage outfall at Nemestown, Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford. The assessment took place in July 2009 and coincided with a spring tide, so the maximum foreshore area was exposed at low water.
The survey recorded that, although there was a large quantity of flotsam and jetsam noted on the backshore section, there were no archaeological deposits or features noted on the proposed outfall route. Notwithstanding this, the recovery of a number of cutlasses from the adjoining area and its obvious navigation hazard means that there is potential for development works in this area to uncover previously unrecorded archaeological materials and deposits.
