Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- New Ross
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39648, -6.93992
- SMR number
- WX029-013022-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise on a W-facing slope within the town of New Ross. The parish church of St Mary's (WX029-013002-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 140m ENE-WSW; c. 55-75m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls. Infrastructural improvements to St. Mary’s church and graveyard, undertaken by Wexford County Council, were archaeologically monitored (E004672) from November 2016 to March 2017 by Catherine McLoughlin. The excavation of four burials – two females and two children and probably an eighteenth century family group, was required W of the present church. Indications of nine other burials were encountered, including a male buried face down who provided a C14 date of cal. AD 1165-1267. The outer face of the N wall of the medieval nave was also partly exposed outside the NW angle of the present church. (McLoughlin 2020)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 August, 2012
Amended: 23 October 2020
References
McLoughlin, C. 2020; Final Archaeological Excavation Report, St Mary’s Church & Graveyard, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Licence No. E004672. Unpublished report, Stafford McLoughlin: Archaeology/Heritage/Conservation
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.