Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Moneylawn Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneylawn Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64908, -6.32121
- SMR number
- WX011-060004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated (E3478) during 2005 by L. Mckinstry as part of Site 13 at Moneylawn Lower, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Two kilns (WX011-060005-) were located outside the outer fosse of conecntric enclosure (WX011-060001-) at SW. About 6m to the N of the kilns was a concentrated group of five small pits (diam. c. 0.35-1m; max. D 0.3m) that contained soils with prehistoric pottery, burnt hazelnuts and a black flint scraper. Other pits scattered around the excavated area had similar fills and some prehistoric pottery. (Mckinstry 2008, 406; 2008a, 10-11)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April, 2012
References
Mckinstry, L. 2008 Moneylawn Lower. Prehistoric and early medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 404-06, No. 1652. Dublin. Wordwell.
Mckinstry, L. 2008a N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeological Resolution. Preliminary report E3478. A003/015. Site 13 Moneylawn Lower, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.