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Midden

Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Wexford
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.33558, -6.45921
SMR number
WX037-032024-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological testing (96E0141) at the rear of No. 121 South Main St., on the W side of the street and just S of Stonebridge Lane, uncovered a layer of midden material (L 5m plus; max. T 0.6m) that included bands of organic material but which produced no ceramic or other artefacts. It was immediately beneath a layer that produced 17th century pottery but overlay a sterile grey/black sandy layer that in turn overlay a row of three posts. A SW-NE stone-lined culvert that holds the Bishops Water Pill was adjacent to the SE. Midden (WX037-032025-) is c. 10m to the SW. (Moran 1996, 3; Moran 1997)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 December, 2012

References

Moran, J. 1997 South Main Street, Wexford. Medieval/post-medieval. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 115, No. 406. Bray, Wordwell

Moran, J. 1996 Archaeological site assessment at 112 South Main Street, Wexford. Licence: 96E0141. Unpublished report, Archaeografix.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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