Places For The Living Podcast

Welcome to our audiobook, ‘Places for the Living, Places for the Dead: Archaeological discoveries on the N25 New Ross Bypass’. This audiobook tells the story of the remarkable archaeological discoveries that have revealed the story of a landscape through time. Many significant sites were discovered during archaeological investigations along the N25 New Ross Bypass. The new road commences near Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny. The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, Ireland’s longest bridge, crosses the River Barrow and its reclaimed estuarine wetlands between Pink Rock and Stokestown, south of New Ross. East of the river it runs between a series of low hills – the prominent landmark of Slievecoiltia – a vantage point to which we will return over the course of this audiobook – and the medieval town of New Ross. At its northern end it passes east of Lacken Hill, crossing a ridge to its north before joining the N30 New Ross to Enniscorthy road. Along the bypass route, archaeologists working on behalf of Wexford County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, uncovered more than 30 previously unknown archaeological sites, encountering evidence ranging from the Mesolithic hunter gatherers who were the first to people the landscape of the to the landlords and labourers of the 19th century whose capital and toil created the well-ordered agricultural landscapes that led to Wexford being known as the ‘Model County’. This audiobook tells the stories of some of those sites, revealing the travellers, farmers and traders that passed through. Some stayed longer than others but all left their mark and played a role in shaping this landscape through which the unstoppable River Barrow flows. The Barrow is one of three rivers – along with the Nore and the Suir – collectively known as the Three Sisters, which drain much of south Leinster and east Munster and flow into the Celtic Sea through Waterford Harbour. For more please visit https://www.abartaheritage.ie/places-for-the-living-places-for-the-dead-audiobook/