2014:450 - NEW ROSS: William Street Lower, Wexford
County: Wexford
Site name: NEW ROSS: William Street Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX029-013005
Licence number: E004572
Author: Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: Moonrise Farmhouse, Coolballow, Drinagh, Wexford, Co. Wexford
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 671757m, N 627151m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.391190, -6.945751
A single test trench was excavated through a bank of material which exists over a section of the town wall at Lower William Street in New Ross. The testing was undertaken to ascertain the origin of deposits overlying the wall and to inform conservation strategy. The material is entirely 19th century in origin and formed a bank around a small cottage which formerly occupied the site. Conservation works were subsequently undertaken, monitoring of which did not reveal any archaeological material.