County: Wexford Site name: BURROW, ROSSLARE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX043-002 Licence number: 11E0348
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: Church and graveyard
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 709321m, N 617052m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.294247, -6.397339
Monitoring took place of the renovation and extension of a single-storey house at Burrow, Rosslare. The development is located within the area of a church site. The monitoring was preceded by a desktop study, a building survey and test excavations, which were undertaken in 2006 (Excavations 2006, no. 2129, 06E099) as part of pre-planning assessment of the proposed development area. The remnants of the south wall of the church and human remains were identified in the 2006 assessment. The rest of the church is no longer extant. Monitoring took two forms. The first was of the demolition of the later walls of the cottage to leave the south wall of the church standing. The second part was to monitor services and groundworks, including engineering trial holes, a biocycle tank and general ground-levelling. The foundation of the building was designed so as to rest above and not disturb the archaeological levels, which included the human burials. No skeletal remains or grave-cuts were identified, and the only find of archaeological interest was a sandstone transom from a medieval window.
Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny
