House - medieval

The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated (E3471) during 2005 by H. Schweitzer as a part of Site 6 at Moneycross Upper, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Situated in a low-lying landscape on a slight S-facing slope. A house (dims. 14.5m N-S; 6.6m E-W) defined by a slot-trench (Wth c. 0.3-0.8m; D 0.02-0.2m) that was complete apart from the N half of the W side had a doorway (Wth 1.2m) in the centre of the E wall. The doorway and adjacent walling had been repaired once. Iron artefacts and Leinster cooking ware can be associated with it. Disturbance of the interior ensured that no in situ features could be recorded, but a re-deposit of charcoal may indicate a hearth. Two small pits, located outside c. 5m to the SE and to the SW are probably contemporary. The house is associated with field system (WX011-054002-), part of which were excavated to the W. (Schweitzer 2008; 2009; Eogan and Kelly 2016, 222)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 April, 2012

References

Schweitzer, H. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeological ressolution. Preliminary report. E3471. Site 6, Moneycross Upper, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report. V.J. Keeley Ltd.

Schweitzer. H. 2009 A medieval farmstead at Moneycross Upper, Co. Wexford. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds.), Rural settlement in medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 15. Dublin. Wordwell.

Eogan, J. and Kelly, B. 2016. 'New Roads to Medieval Wexford.' in I. Doyle, and B. Browne Medieval Wexford: essays in memory of Billy Colfer, 211-40. Dublin, Four Courts Press