County: Wexford Site name: Donaghmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0591
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Park, Bree, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 720830m, N 650518m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.592493, -6.216593
Planning permission was granted for the construction of a dwelling-house and all associated site works at a site at Donaghmore, Ballygarrett, Co. Wexford.
The proposed development site is located within 100m of WX017–007, a disused 19th-century church which is assumed to have been constructed on an earlier foundation. The church is associated with a small graveyard.
The required testing of the site was not carried out prior to the construction of the dormer bungalow. However, as the drainage system had not yet been installed by January 2010 and as the garden had not yet been landscaped, it was, at that time, possible to test the majority of the development site, with the exception of the footprint of the house and an area of driveway at the site’s road frontage
A series of five test-trenches were excavated across the areas of the site which were available for testing. No archaeological features or deposits were uncovered during the testing exercise.
