County: Cavan Site name: Wesleyan Church Arts Centre, Adelaide Road, Bailieborough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 15E0543
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: No Archaeological Features Uncovered
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 667616m, N 797063m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.918515, -6.970694
Testing was undertaken as part preparation of an Archaeological Impact Assessment with respect to a proposed single-storey extension to The Wesleyan Chapel Arts Centre, Adelaide Road, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. The Assessment was requested by the Planning Authority, following a recommendation from the NMS. The development site is not listed in the RMP and there are no previously identified archaeological monuments located within, or in the immediate environs of, the development lands.
The Wesleyan Chapel was built on the site in 1833, where ‘divine service was performed every alternate Sunday (Lewis, 1837). The OS map of 1913 indicates that a graveyard had been established to the north of the chapel by this time and that a ‘Manse’ house had been constructed to the immediate south, the gardens of which extended into the present eastern site area. The Church was converted to an Arts Centre in the early 1990s.
Four trenches were excavated within the area of the proposed extension and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.
Reference:
Lewis, S. 1837. Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Lewis & Co, London.
7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
