County: Wexford Site name: Kilmore Quay (Beak, Nemestown)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0047
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Undetermined
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 696840m, N 603945m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.178805, -6.584004
An area of burning has already been investigated in the corner of the site for a new Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in the Kilmore Quay area of Co. Wexford (Rooney 2022, 19E0047). Topsoil stripping on the greenfield length of pipeline route approaching the WWTP, and on the rest of the WWTP site, exposed a few scattered features of archaeological interest, including a small group around a firespot. Two in the group produced likely prehistoric pottery.
All of the features were investigated prior to further groundworks, and a number of charcoal samples have been collected for dating.
Groundworks at the quayside exposed the 19th-century harbour wall and seafront wall, both damaged by service trenching.
Archaeografix, Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford. X42PA48
