Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Townparks (st. John'S Par.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (st. John'S Par.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33917, -6.46530
- SMR number
- WX037-032034-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The site of the parish church of St John (WX037-032015-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 20-25m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. A sarcophagus (WX037-032035-) is set upright in the graveyard. Archaeological testing (03E0204) identified a ditch (Wth 4m; D 0.65m) containing post-medieval pottery running NW-SE c. 8m NE of the graveyard wall, which may be part of an original boundary of the graveyard or a field boundary (Moloney and Gleeson 2003). A number of burials, largely post-medieval in date on artefactual evidence, were excavated (03E0204) inside the line of this boundary, but one of them produced a C14 date of AD 1430-1640 (MacDomhnaill 2008). Archaeological excavation (E004583) at the entrance gate uncovered two burials that are probably eighteenth century in date but were left in situ (McLoughlin 2018; excavations.ie 2015:340; 2018:108). (Cullen 1895, 375; Hore 1906, vol. 5, 84).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 December, 2012
Amended: 19 October 2020
References
McLoughlin, C. 2018 Archaeological Assessment Report, Upton Co. Wexford. Licence No. 18E0334. Unpublished report, Stafford McLoughlin.
Mac Domhnaill, B. 2008 Final report on the archaeological excavation of a proposed development at John's Gate Street, Wexford town. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology.
Cullen, J.B. 1895 The ancient chruches of the town of Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 25, 369-77.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sarcophagusunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.