Hut site

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 a part of Cooladine 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 6-7). It is situated on an undulating landscape sloping down slightly to the W where a SE-NW section of a small S-N stream is c. 70m to the SW.
A curving slot-trench (Wth 0.45m; D 0.2m; L 8-10m plus) at the S end of the excavated area may have some structural post-holes on its line NW-NE-E but most of the interior was outside the excavated area to the SW. However, it could not be traced with remote sensing techniques. There are two post-holes in the interior, one of which would be central to the structure. The pottery suggests a Bronze Age date. About 65m to the N a possible four-post structure was identified through four post-holes in a square arrangement (dims 1.9-2m N-S; 1.9-2m E-W). The possible Neolithic structure (WX026-083001-) is c. 50m to the NNW. (Hardy and Rajic 2012, 14-5; Whitty 2013; 2013, 234).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

References

Whitty, Y. 2013 Cooladine 1: pits, post- and stake-holes. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 233-4, No. 733. Dublin. Wordwell.

Hardy, C. and Rajic, M. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4162, Cooladine 1. Stage (III) Post-excavation assessment report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

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 Unpublished.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).