Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Ballycarrigeen Lower 5 (Hardy et al. 2010, 59-60). It is situated at the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 60m to the NW as it begins to turn W. It was completely excavated (E4227) by M. McNamara as a group of four large pits (dims 1.6m x 0.54-1.02m; D 0.3m to 3.4m x 1.2-1.6m; d 0.4m) in a concentrated area (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) with some smaller features. The fills were largely silty clays and the only artefacts were nine sherds of prehistoric pottery and four flints from the topsoil or secondary fills of the pits. One pit produced six sherds of post-medieval glazed red earthenware from a secondary fill. (McNamara 2012; 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

References

Hardy, C., Nugent, L., Homan Reid, R; O'Liathain, N; Whitty, Y.; and Coleman, C. 2010 N11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (1)a. E4110. Testing report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished. TVAS (Ireland).

McNamara, M. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4227, Ballycarrigeen Lower 5. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

McNamara, M. 2013 Ballycarrigeen Lower 5. Pits, drain. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 215-16, No. 686. Dublin. Wordwell.