County: Wexford Site name: Drumgold
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WX020: 032 Licence number: 18E0622 (18R0217) ext.
Author: Niall Gregory
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 698594m, N 639673m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.499532, -6.547886
The Department of Education and Skills is undertaking the construction of new Primary and Secondary Special Needs Schools in a greenfield site on the edge of suburban Enniscorthy. It is situated adjacent to an existing Primary Gaelscoil. The site is some 600m from Windmill WX020:032 on Vinegar Hill, which also served as the focal point of Vinegar Hill battle as part of the 1798 Rebellion. Metal-detecting work in 2017 identified nearly 600 artefacts associated with the battle in the fields between Vinegar Hill and the site of development. Several years previously a possible battlefield artefact was recovered during the construction of the Gaelscoil.
Previous archaeological work in relation to the development commenced on 1 November 2018; advance metal detecting followed by archaeological monitoring of the construction-led topsoil stripping of the 110,000m² site was followed by a final phase of monitoring of the construction of a perimeter footpath and cycleway along the north side of the site and reinstatement of the townland boundary, as a stone-clad earthen bank, where the entrance to the construction site was made.
The remaining monitoring took place from 27 to 30 April 2021. This consisted of reinstatement of a stone-clad earthen bank, which was opened as a temporary construction site entrance at the outset of the development. The archaeological participation in this phase of the project was to ensure that the wall reinstatement was in keeping with the original in terms of materials, construction methods, style and finishes.
Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
