2014:047 - M11, Gorey to Enniscorthy Road Scheme, Wexford
County: Wexford
Site name: M11, Gorey to Enniscorthy Road Scheme
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E004551
Author: Edel Ruttle, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Co. Clare
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 699429m, N 642067m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.520891, -6.534877
Archaeological test trenching examined 22 previously untested areas on the route of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy Road scheme in the summer of 2014. The areas were located in the townlands of Frankfort, Ballygullen, Ballyeden, Rockspring, Quarry, Mountgeorge, Ballycarrigeen Lower, Tomsallagh, Crane, Tomnafunshogue, Drumgold, Ballycourcy More, Ballybanogue, Garrynisk, Ballyorril, Killalligan North, Bessmount, Dunsinane and Ballynabarny. This follows on from a previous programme of testing in 2010 (entry 2010:767).
Eight previously unknown archaeological sites were found dating from the prehistoric to medieval periods: E4560 Quarry 3; E4563 Ballynabarny 5; E4564 Ballycourcy More 5; E4581 Drumgold 6; E4593 Ballyorril 2; E4594 Ballycarrigeen Lower 8; E4595 Ballycarrigeen Lower 9 and E4596 Ballycarrigeen Lower 10.