2013:506 - Townparks, Joseph Street, Wexford, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford Site name: Townparks, Joseph Street, Wexford

Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX037-050 Licence number: 13E0462

Author: Rob O’Hara

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 704710m, N 621309m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.333390, -6.463589

Testing took place of a proposed school at Joseph Street and Green Street, Wexford at the site of WX037-050 (windmill). Four test trenches totalling 155m were excavated across the site. A significant quantity of rubble and soil has been used to raise ground level within the site, up to 1.1m deep to the west and south, and greater than 2m to the east. Further testing is planned prior to construction. No features, structures or objects of archaeological significance were recorded.

 

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