2021:695 - BELLACORICK: Sheskin Wind Farm, Sheskin, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: BELLACORICK: Sheskin Wind Farm, Sheskin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 21E0558
Author: Dermot Nelis
Author/Organisation Address: 36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 496350m, N 827920m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.189733, -9.588193
Sheskin Wind Farm will involve construction of eight wind turbines with associated hardstandings, new internal access tracks, upgrading existing access tracks, water crossings, underground cabling, a substation, a permanent meteorological mast, a site compound and associated site works.
Monitoring of advance enabling works, which was limited to upgrading 4 existing culverts with new box culverts, took six days to carry out in September 2021.
No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed as a result of carrying out the monitoring.