2013:505 - TAGHMON/KEELOGES/BALLYMICHAEL, Wexford

Monitoring of the Wexford Collection Systems Extension Scheme – Contract No. 1 (Taghmon & Crosstown/Ferrybank) for the construction of 3 new pumping stations and associated rising mains and gravity sewers to connect the area of Crosstown, Ferrybank and the village of Taghmon to the public sewer network in Wexford Town took place between November 2012 and February 2013. The majority of installation works for the new rising main was carried out along existing carriageways using the directional drilling method. This methodology reduced the amount of open cut to a number of roadside launch and receptor pits. In all instances the exposed stratigraphy consisted of modern aggregates and fills overlying natural layers. Similarly excavations for the pumping stations at Taghmon and Keeloges exposed no finds or features of archaeological potential.